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miko2I can't think of anything to say, but I must post something!
One thing I can say is: at Chuck's house, I looked at a book that had a very "British Terry Pratchett" look to the cover. This was because it was published by the same British publisher (Corgi), with the same artist who illustrates Terry's British books (Josh Kirby) and with the same kind of overall layout style. But the book was a collection of short stories with the title "The Flying Sorcerers". This collection includes a lot of short fantasy/fantastic works that were clearly not written specifically for the collection -- many of them come from well-known authors who are not modern (ie currently working, or even currently alive) high-fantasy authors: P G Wodehouse, C S Lewis, Michael Moorcock, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Angela Carter, etc. And Terry Pratchett, of course.
(One Amazon reviewer complained that the book did not contain a single flying wizard, to which I reply: you get Death! DEATH! What more could you want?)
It was also the sequel to a similar collection called "The Wizards of Odd" which also contained a very short Terry Pratchett story. I own that book, but I hadn't read anything in it in a very long while. The first story is the Pratchett story, the next is one by Lord Dunsany. Fun stuff.
Anyway I went ahead and ordered "The Flying Sorcerers" from Amazon for 50 cents plus shipping and handling. It won't have the cool Corgi cover, but then neither does my copy of "The Wizards of Odd".
I also ordered a copy of the Cordwainer Smith book that Jeff leant me for several years, and which I never read, and recently gave back. But I still want to read it one day.
And I ordered a copy of the movie "For Your Height Only", which is an imitation James Bondish film about an evil man trying to destroy the world, and the spy who stops him, and who also gets all the girls along the way. Oh, and the spy is a 3-foot-tall Filipino martial arts weapons-expert superspy in a Boogie Nights white polyester liesure suit. :D Badly dubbed into English, mind you.
One thing I can say is: at Chuck's house, I looked at a book that had a very "British Terry Pratchett" look to the cover. This was because it was published by the same British publisher (Corgi), with the same artist who illustrates Terry's British books (Josh Kirby) and with the same kind of overall layout style. But the book was a collection of short stories with the title "The Flying Sorcerers". This collection includes a lot of short fantasy/fantastic works that were clearly not written specifically for the collection -- many of them come from well-known authors who are not modern (ie currently working, or even currently alive) high-fantasy authors: P G Wodehouse, C S Lewis, Michael Moorcock, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Angela Carter, etc. And Terry Pratchett, of course.
(One Amazon reviewer complained that the book did not contain a single flying wizard, to which I reply: you get Death! DEATH! What more could you want?)
It was also the sequel to a similar collection called "The Wizards of Odd" which also contained a very short Terry Pratchett story. I own that book, but I hadn't read anything in it in a very long while. The first story is the Pratchett story, the next is one by Lord Dunsany. Fun stuff.
Anyway I went ahead and ordered "The Flying Sorcerers" from Amazon for 50 cents plus shipping and handling. It won't have the cool Corgi cover, but then neither does my copy of "The Wizards of Odd".
I also ordered a copy of the Cordwainer Smith book that Jeff leant me for several years, and which I never read, and recently gave back. But I still want to read it one day.
And I ordered a copy of the movie "For Your Height Only", which is an imitation James Bondish film about an evil man trying to destroy the world, and the spy who stops him, and who also gets all the girls along the way. Oh, and the spy is a 3-foot-tall Filipino martial arts weapons-expert superspy in a Boogie Nights white polyester liesure suit. :D Badly dubbed into English, mind you.
