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Terry Pratchett's novel Eric mentions that the president of the cabinet of demons has carpets inhabited by tribes of liliputs, possibly suggesting a link between The Carpet People and Discworld universes, or possibly merely one of Pratchett's in-jokes.
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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.
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 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.
* 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.
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* Terry Pratchett intended his 1981 novel Strata to be a " pisstake / homage / satire " of Ringworld.
* 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.
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.
* Edge the Loner, a novel by Terry Harknett ( writing as George G. Gilman ), or the title character, Josiah Hedges
In the Discworld novel Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett, one of the characters is a zombie by the name of Baron Saturday, who is the former ruler of the fictional country of Genua.
A powerful swamp witch / voodoo woman in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Witches Abroad is named Erzulie Gogol.
* Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind
Hopewell, Illinois is the location used by author Terry Brooks in his fantasy novel Running with the Demon.
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, published in 2001, gives version of the tale.
* Stage ( Play ): In 2009, the City Literature Theatre, a Chicago repertory company, mounted a stage production of the original Hammett novel adapted by Terry McCabe.
** Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys contains a reference to the main characters, Grady Tripp and Terry Crabtree, " speculating for hours on the meaning of a certain enigmatic question in the lyrics to ' Any Major Dude.
Terry Pratchett has written a non-Discworld novel called Dodger with the title character bearing certain similarities to the Dickens character.
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 ''.
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