![]() Pratchett’s Discworld series, a collection of satirical fantasy novels set on a disc-shaped world that rests on the backs of four giant elephants atop a humongous turtle, proved wildly popular worldwide, and he published one or more nearly every year into the early 21st century. ![]() In 1987 Pratchett left his office job to become a full-time writer. The series continued with The Light Fantastic (1986), which was quickly followed by Equal Rites (1986) and Mort (1987). He published two more stand-alone novels, The Dark Side of the Sun (1976) and Strata (1981), before the first book in his Discworld series, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. Pratchett continued to work in newspaper journalism and then in public relations throughout the 1970s and most of the ’80s. The lighthearted tale, aimed at children, centres on the exploits of two brothers who live inside a carpet and battle the evil concept of Fray. About this time he began working on his first novel, The Carpet People, which was published in 1971 (it was heavily revised and republished in 1992). ![]() At age 17 Pratchett left school in order to pursue a career in journalism. ![]() The story was published commercially two years later in Science Fantasy magazine. He became enamoured with science fiction and fantasy at a young age and published his first story, “The Hades Business,” in a school magazine in 1961. Pratchett was raised in Buckinghamshire, the son of an engineer and a secretary. ![]()
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