A Blink of the Screen

[DaveC]

Has this been covered yet? Just saw an update on Facebook.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blink-Scree...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342435440&sr=1-1

 

[pip]

First i've seen of the cover anyway . Cheers Dave

 

[DaveC]

No worries!

 

[pip]

Preordered it a while back but glad to see what i'm getting now

 

[Molokov]

We've definitely talked about it before now, but this is the first official pic of the cover (as revealed by Lynsey on the Terry Pratchett Facebook page). It'd be nice to know exactly what stories are in it (I've got Once More With Footnotes so I'd like to know some of the overlap) but I guess we'll find out closer to publication date.

 

[poohcarrot]

from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.

Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas.

I thought it was just going to be stories from the Bucks Free Press, but reading the above seems to imply Hollywood Chickens, Turntables of the night and the Xmas horror story are also in. The latter three are all in Once More with Footnotes.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

A picture of the cover was put up on the forum a couple months ago but after a request it was taken down, as Amazon jumped the gun and Transworld were not happy about it being shown on their site.

 

[Catch-up]

Didn't know about this. Thanks Dave!

 

[The Mad Collector]

From contacts I've had with Colin Smythe this will cover quite a lot of OMWF along with bits that were missed for example the introduction to Discworld that Terry wrote for the Sourcery proof will be in this book. He didn't mention the Bucks Free Press stuff but he wasn't going to tell me too much.

 

[Catch-up]

Going through some books the other day, I came across the Legends book with "The Sea and the Little Fishes" in it. I owned Once More With Footnotes at one time. Got it for a very good price, not much more than the original price, then opted to let it go when it was going for more. Loved the stories in it, but wanted to pad the vacation fund that year.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Part of the contents page

 

[Molokov]

It's great! I don't think I've read Medical Notes, A Few Words from Lord Havelock Vetinari, or the Scouts and Football ones! New fiction!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Scouts and Football ones are probably to do with the Summer Wincanton events when they had a Scouts type camping Jamboree one Spring time and the football one which was the Unseen Academicals Summer do which was good I had loads of fun.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just had a quick look inside it has some good artwork by Josh and other stuff. I will check it out in more depth when I get it back indoors.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Just finished A Blink of the Screen. Very good although there is a significant overlap with Once More With Footnotes. Really glad I didn't get suckered into buying the special Waterstones edition of The Long Earth just to own a copy of The High Meggas as it is included in the new collection.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I just got the regular one as well Mad.

 

[Ghost]

for the last eight or so years I've really have tried to own a copy of footnotes but they have grown extremely expensive so I've set my sights on on Blink but before I commit to buying it is there going to be a paperback edition released

 

[Molokov]

I'd assume that eventually it will come out in paperback. You may have to wait a year, though. (It's usually one year between hardcover and paperback)

 

[Ghost]

yeah I hope so but there's one thing that's nagging at me and that is footnotes never had a paperback release

 

[Molokov]

OMWF was a limited special release for a Sci-Fi Convention in the US. They did a reprint when the initial run sold out, but that was all.

Blink of the Screen is published by Doubleday/Transworld, who do all of Terry's books. It's not a limited release. They are completely different animals (although sharing about 60% DNA)