* Albert ( Discworld ), a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, the character of Alberto Mallich ( founder of the Unseen University and later Death's manservant Albert ) is a sly nod to Albertus Magnus in his more legendary and esoteric guise.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's " Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch " contains reference to the broth as the substance in Anathema Device's mug when she is run into by Aziraphale and Crowley.

One of the major sentient species in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe are the " Earth "- based ( ranging from Detritus to Diamond ) Trolls.

In more modern times, Piers Anthony's Xanth books, Robert Asprin's MythAdventures of Skeeve and Aahz books, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Tom Holt's books provide good examples, as do many of the works by Christopher Moore.

* Hex ( Discworld ), a computer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels

A variation on the phrase was written into Terry Pratchett's Hogfather for Death, voiced by Richardson.

It is sometimes assumed that the name Ogg comes from the character of Nanny Ogg in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, but the Ogg developers say that is not true.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, particularly those featuring the Lancre witches, the Picts are an obvious influence on the Nac Mac Feegle, a race of tiny wood-fairies whose speech is influenced by Scottish Gaelic and who are tattooed with blue war-paint.

Creating a total of over 400 cover paintings, his personal preference was for science fiction jackets ( for example see Robert Silverberg's Majipoor novels and Kirby's own Voyage of the Ayeguy ) and his work on the covers of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels is well known.

This was followed in 1999 by another graphic album titled A Cosmic Cornucopia, which includes extensive text by David Langford and two chapters dedicated to his work for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

The History Monks appear in Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time and explain anachronisms in the Discworld ( such as Elizabethan theatre existing simultaneously with opera ) by describing how history was previously destroyed by a magical clock and they have been haphazardly attempting to reconstruct it.

Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens.

* Ankh-Morpork, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, is referred to as " the twin cities of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork "

* In Terry Pratchett's Humour / Fantasy series Discworld, the Lancre Witch Nanny Ogg's cat Greebo ( also known as " The Terror of the Ramtops ") is often depicted in art as resembling the British Blue.

Later television roles have included two appearances in Sky One's two-part adaptations of Terry Pratchett's fantasy novels, as Albert in Hogfather in 2006, and Rincewind in The Colour of Magic in 2008.

In December 2006, he starred in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather on Sky1 as Albert.

In 1995, he voiced Rincewind the " Wizzard " in a computer adventure game based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

In Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are parodied as Bravd and the Weasel.

In addition to telling his own stories, Robinson narrated the abridged audio book versions of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

In February 2010 Robinson, described as the ' stunt Pratchett ', read the main part of Terry Pratchett's BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture.

* Terry Pratchett's Hogfather ( 2006 ) – Vernon Crumley

* Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

* Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series uses English, written with Enochian letters as a cipher alphabet, as the language of the Golems.

* Discworld — A flat, disc-shaped " planet ", supported on the backs of giant elephants riding on a turtle, in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

In the fictional Discworld universe created by author Terry Pratchett, the city-state of Ankh-Morpork contains numerous Guilds ( including respective Guilds for Assassins, Beggars and Fools, as well as Thieves and others ), all of which have a monopoly on the various trades which they dominate.

* In the Discworld series of novels by Terry Pratchett, the practice of retrophrenology is mentioned.

In the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, the Patrician's Palace contains the Rats Chamber, an anagrammatical equivalent to the actual Star Chamber.

Mort is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.

* The Unseen University, in the fictional Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett

" Vorbis " is named after a Discworld character, Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

* Richard Rahl carries The Sword of Truth on a baldric in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series of the same name.

While at Ace, he and co-editor Terry Carr began an annual anthology series, The World's Best Science Fiction, the first collection of what they considered the best of the prior year's short stories, from magazines, hardcovers, paperback collections and other anthologies.

* Richard Morgan ( actor ), most noted for playing the long-running role of Terry Sullivan in the Australian television series The Sullivans.

* The Mole, a fictional character in three fantasy novels in Terry Brooks ' Shannara series

Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the third series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to exclusively feature debut novels.

In 2008, it was announced at Comic-Con in San Diego that Raimi would be executive producing a new syndicated TV series called Legend of the Seeker, based on Terry Goodkind's best-selling The Sword of Truth fantasy series.

Moving to England, he animated sequences for the children's series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

* In Terry Brooks ' Shannara series, the Ellcrys, an Elf-turned-tree, plays some sort of role in many of the novels

OS-9 has had a modular design from the beginning, influenced by notions of the designers of the 6809 and how they expected software would be distributed in the future ( see the three-part series of articles in Jan-Mar 1979 Byte by Terry Ritter, et al.

The emerging alternative comedians began to encroach on British sitcoms, partly as a response to such series as Terry and June ( 1979 – 87 ) being perceived as containing " complacent gentility, outmoded social attitudes and bourgeois sensibilities ".

She posed in their apartment for photographer Terry O ' Neill in casual domestic scenes such as opening baby gifts, and also completed a series of glamour photographs for the British magazine Queen.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.

David Jason appeared in the BBC comedy series Hugh and I, which starred Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as two friends who lived together in south London.

Idle starred in the children's television comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set co-starring his future Python fellows Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Terry Deary has also written a series of books, Horrible Histories, in the same vein.

This is a genealogy for the main characters from Terry Brooks ' Shannara series of fantasy novels.

He collaborated with Terry Jones, who was a screenwriter on Labyrinth, on The Goblins of the Labyrinth ( 1986, re-issued in abridged form as The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins in 1996 ), and subsequently on a number of non-Labyrinth-related books about fairies and goblins, namely of the " Lady Cottington " series, such as Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book.