The Discworld Bestiary: Discover the brand new illustrated guide to the wonderful creatures of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
About this ebook
Step into the wonderfully strange world of Sir Terry Pratchett's iconic Discworld universe with this fully illustrated guide to its most curious, dangerous, and downright baffling creatures.
All manner of animal life is here, from the Curious Squid and Hermit Elephant to the Terrible Man-Eating Sloth of Clup. Discover the eating habits of the Ambiguous Puzuma, and marvel at the startling prevalence of ominous ducks in cosmic matters (including wereducks).
Teeming with insights and beastly wisdom, The Discworld Bestiary is packed with extra advice from Rincewind, Unseen University’s latest (and reluctant) adjunct professor of Perplexing Beasts and curator of its Curiobiological Museum.
With beautiful illustrations - including new artwork - from Paul Kidby, Pratchett's longtime artistic collaborator, this stunning, funny companion to the Discworld novels is a must for Pratchett fans.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'Sir Terry Pratchett is the single greatest writer of the twenty-first century' Brandon Sanderson
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
‘One of the most consistently funny writers around’ Ben Aaronovitch
'[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
‘Pratchett is a master storyteller’ Guardian
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone’ Daily Express
‘Masterful and brilliant’ Fantasy & Science Fiction
‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times
‘The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
‘[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it’ Evening Standard
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About the author
Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
www.terrypratchettbooks.com
Paul Kidby (Illustrator)
Paul Kidby is best known for being the 'artist of choice' for Sir Terry Pratchett. Paul started working with Terry in 1993 and has designed the Discworld book jackets since 2002 following the death of artist Josh Kirby. He has illustrated many Discworld publications including The Art of Discworld, best-selling The Last Hero and the Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium.
