A Blink of the Screen
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Author | Terry Pratchett |
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Illustrator | Josh Kirby |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, Science Fiction |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | October 11, 2012 |
Pages | 318 |
ISBN | 978-0-385-61898-4 |
A Blink of the Screen is a 2012 short fiction anthology by Terry Pratchett. Spanning the author's entire career, the collection contains almost all of his short fiction, whether or not set in the Discworld.[1][2]
Contents[]
- Foreword by A. S. Byatt
- Non-Discworld Shorter Writings
- "The Hades Business" (1963)
- "Solution" (1964)
- "The Picture" (1965)
- "The Prince and the Partridge" (1968)
- "Rincemangle, The Gnome of Even Moor" (1973)
- "Kindly Breathe in Short, Thick Pants" (1976)
- "The Glastonbury Tales" (1977)
- "There's No Fool Like an Old Fool Found in an English Queue" (1978)
- "Coo, They've Given Me the Bird" (1978)
- "And Mind the Monoliths" (1978)
- "The High Meggas" (1986)
- "Twenty Pence, with Envelope and Seasonal Greeting" (1987)
- "Incubust" (1988)
- "Final Reward" (1988)
- "Turntables of the Night" (1989)
- "#ifdefDEBUG + `world/enough' + `time'" (1990)
- "Hollywood Chickens" (1990)
- "The Secret Book of the Dead" (1991)
- "Once and Future" (1995)
- "FTB" (1996)
- "Sir Joshua Easement: A Biographical Note" (2010)
- Discworld Shorter Writings
- "Troll Bridge" (1992)
- "Theatre of Cruelty" (1993)
- "The Sea and Little Fishes" (1998)
- "The Ankh-Morpork National Anthem" (1999)
- "Medical Notes" (2002)
- "Thud: A Historical Perspective" (2002)
- "A Few Words from Lord Havelock Vetinari" (2002)
- "Death and What Comes Next" (2002)
- "A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices" (2005)
- "Minutes of the Meeting to Form the Proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts" (2007)
- "The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame playing cards" (2009)
- Appendix
- Deleted extract from "The Sea and Little Fishes" (1998)
- List of Illustrations
References[]
External links[]
- A Blink of the Screen title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:
- 2012 short story collections
- British short story collections
- Fantasy anthologies
- Science fiction anthologies
- Single-writer short story collections
- Discworld books
- Fantasy short story collection stubs
- 2010s short story collection stubs
- Science fiction short story collection stubs