of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service.

In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. I hope you enjoy this book-it's one of my favorites, but it certainly takes more than one reading.Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. She resents, to some extent, the fact that DEATH expects her to 'drop everything' and come help him in this book, But she certainly doesn't try to deny their special relationship nor does his use of her to do something he cannot do come as a surprise to her.Īnd by the way, Sparky, Welcome to the Board. But your statement that this is when she realizes that Death really is her grandfather makes no sense-she always has known that he was her grandfather (from the time she went to visit him as a small child and thought all grandfathers had bony knees and wore black robes). However, I'm totally puzzled by your last sentence, and have finally decided that you are probably confusing Susan in Soul Music (her first appearance and function as a substitute Death)and Susan in Thief of Time.

I would identify the four major threads as the Lobsang/LuTze thread, the Jeremy/Igor thread, the Susan thread and the DEATH thread but they intertwine and one could make a case for still more threads. Click to expand.I agree that the threads in this book do eventually come together-and there are multiple threads in this book.

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett