Terry Pratchett authored the 1999 novel The Fifth Elephant centered around the theft of a Dwarfish coronation seat made from hardened bread and called the Scone of Stone.

* In The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett a reference is made to " those bastards over at Braseneck College ", probably a parody of Brasenose.

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.

* Terry Pratchett has made numerous uses within his novels.

In 1999 Terry Pratchett made both Jack Cohen and Professor Ian Stewart " Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University " at the same ceremony at which the University of Warwick gave Terry Pratchett an honorary degree.

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.

Pratchett is evasive about how the water eventually returns to refill the oceans, only saying, " Arrangements are made.

It is based on the " ancient phrase " The big sea does not care which way the little fishes swim, which Pratchett made up at some point before the story, and finally used in Night Watch.

* In the Discworld story The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett, Cohen the Barbarian plans to detonate an explosive called Agatean Thunder Clay at the Hub, to show the gods how annoyed he is with them.

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett identifies The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream, both by " BB ", the nom-de-plume of Denys Watkins-Pitchford, as possible inspiration, featuring faries that could talk to animals, but " there was nothing tinkly about them ; they lived in a world of dangers.

The concept also appears in the Discworld novels of English author Terry Pratchett, where it is referred to as malignity or malignance ; one practical example the author gives is the tendency of garden hoses, no matter how carefully one coils and stores them, to unloop themselves overnight and tie the bicycle to the lawnmower.

" Ramtoppers have 18 words for snow ," Pratchett says, " none of them printable.

Pratchett explains the difference between them as being essentially the same as that between " terrorists " and " freedom fighters ".

The book details most major lead characters from the Discworld books and gives them background information, including how Pratchett visualises them and the inspiration behind them.

Pratchett describes them like this:

The Nome Trilogy, also known in both the UK and the US as The Bromeliad Trilogy, is a trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett, consisting of

Susan is a " slightly built young woman "; both Mustrum Ridcully and Terry Pratchett himself have described her as being " attractive in a skinny way ".

co-authored and partly based on ideas created by Terry Pratchett, and in The Collapse of Chaos ( 1994 ) and Figments of Reality ( 1997 ), both by the other two co-authors of The Science of Discworld, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

Pratchett also compares the elves to cats, both being extremely stylish and excessively cruel.

In the Author's Note of the revised edition, published in 1992, Terry Pratchett wrote: " This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

The book also includes an introduction by Stephen Briggs and an interview with Terry Pratchett, both of which have also been " updated " in each edition.

There are plenty of references, both to people and events of alt. fan. pratchett, films like Star Wars, The Terminator, and Aliens, TV shows like Star Trek and The Muppet Show, books by authors like Pratchett and J. R. R. Tolkien, as well as computer games, rock songs, classical poetry and Japanese fetishes.

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

In fiction it is mentioned in the novel The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, and was the inspiration for the Unseen University in the works of Terry Pratchett.

Terry Pratchett makes use of the distinction in his Discworld novels, in which the Librarian of the Unseen University is an orangutan who gets very violent if referred to as a monkey.

* Press release about Terry Pratchett " Wizard Making " of Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart at the University of Warwick

Cohen and fellow University of Warwick researcher Ian Stewart, a mathematician, collaborated with Terry Pratchett to write three Science of Discworld books, which accompany his Discworld series.

* In the novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett the prophet Brutha encounters several Ephebian ( Greek ) philosophers in the country, attempting to disprove Zeno's paradox by shooting arrows at a succession of tortoises.

After being asked if he would write about the Nomes ' return ( as implied at the end of Wings ), Pratchett replied, " there may be another book about the nomes.

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explains that Vimes protects himself from the Beast with the symbol of his own badge, which prevents him from becoming the criminal he despises, at least in his own mind.

A yeti can " save " its life up to a certain point and, at the point of death, can return to that point, with the knowledge of what was going to kill it ( a clear reference to video games — Terry Pratchett is known to be a gamer ).

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.

Men at Arms is the 15th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett first published in 1993.

# Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

* 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.

In The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, Keith skeptically notes that the filth associated with supposedly tying the young rats together at a young age is not found in a rat's nest, and suspects that a rat king is created as a sort of project by a rat catcher himself.

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

Terry Pratchett even says in The Art of Discworld that he has received a number of letters from terminally ill fans in which they hope that Death will resemble the Discworld incarnation ( he also says that those particular letters usually cause him to spend some time staring at the wall ).

The book is loosely based on real events in Westminster in the 1980s, when the council sold three cemeteries as building land for 15p ( Pratchett was working as a journalist at this time ).

Pratchett suggests this is probably due to the fact that he is very good at his job.

Rugby player Matt Dawson was given an honorary degree in 2007 and writer Terry Pratchett was given an honorary degree at a 2008 graduation ceremony.

In the words of Terry Pratchett: " Not loosely based on Africa at all.

In addition to its flatness, Pratchett gives it another principal geographic feature ; Cori Celesti, a great, 10-mile-high spire of rock that lies at its exact centre and is the point of origin for its standing magical field.