New Terry Pratchett Book

[Puma]

According to Amazon.com "Making Money" no description given, is due out Oct. 1, 2007. Sounds like a Discworld title to me. Anyone heard anything about it?

[Tobias March]

According to Amazon.com "Making Money" no description given, is due out Oct. 1, 2007. Sounds like a Discworld title to me. Anyone heard anything about it?

Why do I suddenly have a memory of South Parks' Underpants Gnomes....

Step 1 collect Underpants

Step 2......

Step 3 Profit!! :D

[Ghost]

According to Amazon.com "Making Money" no description given, is due out Oct. 1, 2007. Sounds like a Discworld title to me. Anyone heard anything about it?

Ah! AH! AH! :eek:

*jumps up and down, pointing and looking like an idiot*

I think I know what's it'll be about! It's probably going to be a sequal to Going Postal!

Recall, in the end of that book, Vetinary said something about doing the same thing to the Ankh Morpork Mint that he did to the Post Office. Bet you anything this is it!

[Expletive Deleted]

The Amazon.co.uk site has the following description:


It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mintruns at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is ...Making Money!

[Puma]

The Amazon.co.uk site has the following description:


sounds fun!

[Inkthinker]

I got some word on it from the Discworld newsletter I get in my email every month or so... Pratchett has sent it off to the publisher, but we shouldn't expect to see it before October (AAAUUUUGGGGHHH!!).

It is, as has been shown, a sequel of sorts to Going Postal, and you can check out Paul Kidby's cover for it (which we will not be enjoying in the US because someone in the system is an idiot, double-AAUUGGGHHH!!), at his personal website:

http://www.paulkidby.net/

It's under the "Studio" link.

The newsletter also had the following quote from the man himself:


"The news here is that Making Money has gone off to the publisher; currently the various works in progress are The Folklore of Discworld, which I am working on with Jacqueline Simpson (co-author of the Lore of the Land, among many other books on folklore. Lu-Tse's Yearbook of Enlightenment (the next Discworld diary) and Nation, a young adult book for next year, which is not Discworld, and not what people are usually thinking about when they use the term fantasy. I am about 10,000 words into it already and actually wrote about 5,000 words of it when I was at the Australian convention a few weeks ago. Well, if the jetlag means you are wide awake at three o'clock in the morning, why waste the time!"

[Ghost]

The Amazon.co.uk site has the following description:

Ha, I was right! Yay! :D

And it's going to star Moist as the main character! :eek:
This is going to rock!

[cactusmaac]

Last Discworld book I enjoyed was The Truth.

Didn't enjoy Going Postal at all.

[dingo]

Last Discworld book I enjoyed was The Truth.

Didn't enjoy Going Postal at all.

Better check you have a soul then.

Try walking through an automatic kwik-i-mart door.

[Roquefort Raider]

Better check you have a soul then.

Try walking through an automatic kwik-i-mart door.



Is that cryptic remark a reference to the Discworld books?

[Constantinople]

I've known about this since last year. I'm heart broken that I'll have to wait until October to buy and read it, though.

[Expletive Deleted]

Is that cryptic remark a reference to the Discworld books?Nope, SIMPSONS. It's from the episode where Bart sells his soul.

[Roquefort Raider]

Nope, SIMPSONS. It's from the episode where Bart sells his soul.

I really suck at pop culture references! Thanks for bringing me up to speed.

[Shades0077]

Awesome news. I loved Going Postal.

Seeing that cover reminds me that I need to get the Art of Discworld book at some point.

[niall mc cann]

Last Discworld book I enjoyed was The Truth.

Didn't enjoy Going Postal at all.

Wow, really?

I thought Going Postal was the real standout of the last half-dozen Discworld novels. Shot up my mental ranks to become one of my favourite all-time of the series.

Which is not to say that i was really hankering after a sequel; i'd prefer if Pratchett took the loose format of GP and wrote another book as specifically satirical as it was, rather than just sticking Moist in a new book.

But generally speaking, Pratchett's so good, it's churlish to complain that each new book is not the best yet.

[cactusmaac]

I just didn't like Moist.

[Puma]

I liked Moist but I preferred Truth to GP and both to Thud; I won't, however, turn up my nose at a new Discworld book though.

[Sanagi]

I just didn't like Moist.
Really? My only complaint about him was that other than his criminal urges he seemed like a generic Pratchett protagonist to me.

[Inkthinker]

Seeing that cover reminds me that I need to get the Art of Discworld book at some point.

Damn right. That book is awesome.

[Ghost]

I just didn't like Moist.

Moist was, IMHO, what made that book. I just love how the guy kept making more and more insane promises and figuring out how to come through with them afterwards, and how he essentially became a hero because it was part of the act he was playing. :D

[twilight]

Although I liked Moist and Going Postal I have trouble seeing Moist carrying his own series.

He's got the post office back on it's feet and that's that.
Have him crop up occasionally in the background.

[Ghost]

Still, seeing Moist von Lipzwig in charge of a place that actually manufactures money is going to be hilarious!