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Good Omens – Official Teaser Trailer
I don’t know anything about the book but this trailer looks great to me. If you’ve read it tell us what you think of this little glimpse. Excited or worried?
RYO Review: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett‘s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is the 28th book in his stand alone series of novels set in the magical realm of Discworld, it is only the 4th novel I have read but Discworld already feels like a safe and familiar home to me. It is funny that this is the first “Discworld” novel written for a YA audience because I have always felt that there was something incredibly sweet about the “Discworld”. That is not to say that there is not evil and maliciousness to be found in Discworld. Any land that has its own “Guild of Assassins” is not all lollipops and butterflies to be sure; there is just something, “nice” for lack of a better word about the entire world.
In this installment we see a reimagining of the “Pied Piper” story as only Terry Pritchett can tell it. The main theme of this novel is that things are not always as they seem. And this theme runs heavily through the entire novel. None of the characters are who they appear to be. Not the animals that talk, not the “Stupid-Looking Boy” Keith, not even the “Rat Problem” that is the cause of all the hardships in the town of “Bad Blintz”.
Discworlds Without End
This weekend was all about Terry Pratchett and his enormous Discworld saga. Is there a longer SF/F series out there? Xanth was close at 32 books but Discworld is the current champ weighing in at 37 books!
Eight nominated novels were already in our data base including Hogfather (1997 BFS nom), Night Watch (2003 Locus nom), Going Postal (2005 Locus and Nebula nominated) and Making Money (2008 Locus Fantasy winner and Nebula nominee). The other 29 have been added starting with the first of the series 1983’s The Color of Magic and ending with the lastest installment, Unseen Academicals, out this year. If you’re a Discworld fan you’ve got a lot of new books to tag as read.
You may have noticed that most of the covers for these are reprints from HarperTorch. I loves me a cover art series and these are fun and definitely colorful. This is a series that’s been printed in many editions and translations over the years so I was happy to find the anniversary set from HT. If you’re a fan of cover art AND Discworld, you’re in luck. The Discworld Cover Wiki has an amazing collection of covers for all the books. Go ahead and check it out. It’s mind-boggling. Just make sure to come back, OK?
