PTerry (that's Terry Pratchett, you know)

Terry Pratchett is one of the Big 3 so far as my favorite authors go.

He is best known as the very prolific author of the Discworld series of books, currently numbering 23 novels and a short story or two. Discworld? How do you describe a circular, flat world riding through space on the backs of four monumentally giant elephants who, in turn, stand on the back of an even larger space turtle? And how do you describe a world where the sun rises each day, goes overhead and sets, only to swoop under the entire world, causing at least one of the elephants to raise a leg to allow it to go through and get ready for another day?

Terry is also the author of many other books, a bunch of them classified as "children's" books but all of them very readable by adults.

I have split the covers into two pages.

Many of his Discworld novels have finally come over to the US and are available through all the major book stores and through Amazon.com. So far, this is not the case for his other books (except for Good Omens which he coauthored with Neil Gaiman. What you will see in almost all of the covers are the British editions.

His entire range of books should still be available through the Internet Bookshop UK and definitely through Amazon.com UK . Both get you the books in as fast as three days, but generally in a week or so. Their prices are listed in British £ (pounds Sterling) and are more expensive than the US editions, but you get the original cover art. You can compute the US costs by using this simple £ to $ calculator: