| Born: April 28, 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire |
| First Publication: |
The Hades Business, Science Fantasy, 1963 |
| First Novel: |
The Carpet People, 1971 |
| British SF Award: |
Pyramids, Best Novel, 1990 |
| Writers' Guild: |
Johnny and the Dead, Best Childrens Book, 1992 |
| British Book Award: |
Best SF/Fantasy Author, 1993 |
| Terry has also been shortlisted twice for
Author of the Year by the British Booksellers Association and three times
by Publishing News. He is Britain's best selling fantasy and SF author,
mostly because of the Discworld seiries of books, starting with The
Colour of Magic in 1983. They've topped the charts 13 times and, much
to his astonishment, sold over 9,000,000 copies worldwide. (They're about
this world set on the back of a giant turtle that... no, we haven't got
the space.) He also writes fantasy aimed theoretically at children which
occasinally competes with the adult books. (Johnny and the Dead
hasn't yet been published in the U.S. because the publisher declared it
"too intelligent for American children".) Basically, he wears
hats. |
| "Fantasy is an excercise bicycle for
the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that
can. Of course, I could be wrong." |
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