Terry Pratchett has written a non-Discworld novel called Dodger set in Victorian London.

Although Ankh-Morpork bears more than a passing resemblance to Lankhmar, Pratchett, known for the use of pastiche in his early works, has been quoted as not intending a direct takeoff.

Terry Pratchett has written a non-Discworld novel called Dodger with the title character bearing certain similarities to the Dickens character.

Terry Pratchett has stated that Sourcery will be the fifth discworld novel to be adapted for Sky One, although he initially wanted to adapt Making Money.

The author Terry Pratchett has also used Hobson as model for a character in the novel Going Postal from 2004.

While no detailed description of his physical appearance shows up in any of the Discworld novels, Pratchett says in the companion work, The Art of Discworld, that he has always imagined Vimes as a younger, slightly bulkier version of British actor Pete Postlethwaite.

Artist Paul Kidby, who has collaborated with Pratchett on several works, portrays him as resembling Clint Eastwood.

Terry Pratchett has commented that Vimes has made setting a story in Ankh-Morpork very difficult as it is almost impossible to create a story involving any sort of crime or politics without it rapidly becoming a Watch book.

Pratchett has described it as " an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns.

* Terry Pratchett has made numerous uses within his novels.

He has collaborated with Dr Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett on three popular science books based on Pratchett's Discworld.

With variations, it has also been used for books on the philosophy of physics ( World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time ), geopolitics ( World Enough and Time: Successful Strategies for Resource Management ), a science-fiction collection ( Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction-Dan Simmons ), a short story by Terry Pratchett (# ifdef DEBUG + " world / enough " + " time "), and, of course, a biography ( World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell ).

As the series progresses, she also begins to take on roles educating children, so that, as Pratchett mentions in The Art of Discworld, she has " ended up, via that unconscious evolution that dogs characters, a kind of Goth Mary Poppins ".

Pratchett has stated that he did not invent the vampire watermelon story himself.

" Brian McGrory quips that, when going to a high-end restaurant, he sometimes feels that he needs " an unabridged dictionary, a Biology 101 textbook, and a pile of Fun With Phonics just to figure out the meaning of gianduja ice cream, hazelnut financiers, yellow watermelon, and bulgur crackers just some of the inscrutable listings from the dessert menu ..." Terry Pratchett satirizes this in his novel Hogfather, after a fancy restaurant has its stock of expensive foods replaced with mud and old boots.

Despite this, the dividing line between dwarfs and humans seems somewhat blurred, and Pratchett has hinted that humans and dwarfs can interbreed ; for example, Nanny Ogg's thick skull is put down to dwarfish ancestry.

In the " Art of Discworld ," Terry Pratchett notes that he has always believed that Nanny Ogg is the most powerful of the witches, but that she is far too clever to let it be known.

In The Discworld Companion, Pratchett claimed that Foul Ol Ron and his Canting Crew were listed as a special Guild classification all their own, having previously referred to Ron as " a Mutterer in good standing " in Men at Arms ; however, in The Art of Discworld and later novels he claims that they are not members of the Guild, which has too many rules for their tastes.

: Note: Some of the information repeated below was taken from the 2002 Discworld Diary, which had a thieves ' guild theme, and has not been confirmed in any of the Discworld novels, although Pratchett has confirmed it is " official ".

* Terry Pratchett has confirmed that the section of his novel Pyramids set at the Assassin's Guild School is a parody of Tom Brown's School Days.

Although the majority of critics receive this book positively, the Washington Post says that this book is “ frustratingly sloppy .” They go on to say “ it doesn ’ t feel as if Tiffany has earned her victory, or as if Pratchett is doing justice to his inquisitive young heroine .”

Terry Pratchett has a cameo appearance in the crowd scene ( next to Dibbler ) at the end of the game.

It has since been made available on the Internet along with dozens of translations by fans, with Pratchett having stated, " I don't want to see it distributed in print anywhere but don't mind people downloading it for their own enjoyment.

Terry Pratchett ( author of the Discworld series of fantasy books ) stated that he " can't imagine a funnier terrorists ' handbook.

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.

Still, to quote the same reference: " Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book Small Gods.

Rainbows End mentions outdoor overlays based on popular fictional universes from H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett among others.

At a conference in October 2011, Terry Pratchett referenced Humptulips as his favorite place on planet Earth.

The season continued with Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, Nation which was based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and adapted by Mark Ravenhill and Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art ''.

* Terry Pratchett created Discworld, a large disc resting on the backs of four huge elephants, which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, as it slowly swims through space.

Thud, a modern game inspired by a series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett ( which in turn were inspired by the historical tafl games ), also features the general symmetry of tafl games, although it is played on an octagonal board with only eight defenders pitted against thirty-two attackers.

* Narrative footnotes, which continue the story while commenting on it ( e. g. Nabokov's Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Alan Moore's From Hell, Cable & Deadpool by Fabian Nicieza, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, many books by Robert Rankin and the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett ).

The Annotated Pratchett File notes that Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes is closely modelled on Oliver Cromwell, and that the name of his supporters, the Ironheads, is a portmanteau of Roundheads and Ironsides, Cromwell's faction and regiment, respectively.

Terry Pratchett noted the following about Vimes on the Usenet: " Vimes is fundamentally a person.

* Terry Pratchett discusses The Colour of Magic on the BBC World Book Club

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett describes Susan as " rather chilly ", and Susan herself admits in Thief of Time that she finds it difficult to relate to other humans on a personal level because the supernatural parts of her mind tend to view mortal creatures as nothing more than " a temporary collection of atoms that not be around in another few decades ".

In Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, one of the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse finds a Gideon Bible in a motel while on the run from the law.

In the Discworld Companion, Pratchett describes Wee Mad Arthur, an Ankh Morpork gnome, as an urbanised Nac Mac Feegle, ( however, he is later revealed to be a Feegle ( see above )) and Paul Kidby's illustration of Buggy Swires in The Art of Discworld is indistinguishable from the pictsies on the cover of The Wee Free Men.

In A Hat Full of Sky, a Discworld novel for young adults by Terry Pratchett, an exaggerated form of the doctrine of signatures results in many plants being equipped with a text in tiny letters ( and bad spelling ) explaining what they may be good for, and sometimes including warnings similar to modern labels on drug or food items.

During its run, the list of authors interviewed became increasingly prestigious, including Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, David Brin, Charles de Lint, Harlan Ellison, William Gibson, Frederik Pohl, Terry Pratchett, Anne Rice, Spider Robinson, and Robert J. Sawyer, who was the most frequent guest on the program.

* In the popular Discworld fantasy books by Terry Pratchett, the Discworld is a flat disc that rests on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle as it slowly swims through space.