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A review by e_reading
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett
5.0
I cried reading this, remembering a great man whose work I have come to love and appreciate so much. Every short story and snippet is prefaced by Pterry's own reminiscing about the work. It felt like talking to an old friend.
Familiar faces abound. Death makes several appearances, not always in his Discworld self but with a familiar Pratchett flair that would remind me always where he comes from. Clever -and a little bit snide- snapshots of a politician, minutes from imagined town meetings, and cheerful poems pepper the pages. I met the gnomes that would one day be the characters in Trucker. I read a writer's great fear -that his characters might, in fact be real, and probably coming to visit him. "The Sea and Little Fishes," featuring Granny Weatherwax in all her proud, righteous glory, made me tear up and I had to stop.
It's a short story collection of works that could have should have would have (possibly never) been.
I loved it.
Familiar faces abound. Death makes several appearances, not always in his Discworld self but with a familiar Pratchett flair that would remind me always where he comes from. Clever -and a little bit snide- snapshots of a politician, minutes from imagined town meetings, and cheerful poems pepper the pages. I met the gnomes that would one day be the characters in Trucker. I read a writer's great fear -that his characters might, in fact be real, and probably coming to visit him. "The Sea and Little Fishes," featuring Granny Weatherwax in all her proud, righteous glory, made me tear up and I had to stop.
It's a short story collection of works that could have should have would have (possibly never) been.
I loved it.