Terry Pratchett

Person · Open Library

Born

28 April 1948

Died

12 March 2015

Works

244

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

England

Active from

1948-04-28

Active to

2015-03-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

17,714

Total plays

2,260,129

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English fantasy author, best known for his Discworld series. Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He is also generally regarded as one of the finest satirists currently writing in the English language, and has been compared to such diverse figures as Douglas Adams, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Evelyn Waugh and P. G. Wodehouse. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Terry+Pratchett">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research

   · 2016 · cited 23,644x

2. A safe operating space for humanity

   · 2009 · cited 9,426x

3. Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys

   · 1977 · cited 9,322x

4. The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults

   · 1993 · cited 7,573x

5. Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells

   · 2017 · cited 6,836x

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Quotes

• “I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.”
• “Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.”
• “"Educational" refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.”
• “I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.”
• “Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.”
• “Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combatting the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...”

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Official website

Link to the official site · 13,535 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Official website

www.terrypratchettbooks.com

Image

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