Where's My Cow?, published in 2005, alongside Thud! The latest novel in the series is The Unseen Academicals (2009).Hailed as one of the greatest humorous satirists, Pratchett was one of few writers to write across the adult/child divide. Thud! (2005), features Sam Vimes, who has to get home each evening to read his son a picture book - Where's My Cow?. The Discworld series is popular world-wide and has led to the production of much related merchandise. There are now more than 30 books in this series, set in a surreal world on the back of four elephants that stand on the shell of Great A'Tuin, the sky turtle. BBC Radio Four serialised The Colour of Magic and Equal Rites (1987)and these brought him great popularity. 1983 saw the publication of The Colour of Magic, which became the first in a long series of Discworld novels. His first novel, The Carpet People (1971), a humorous fantasy, was followed by The Dark Side of the Sun (1976) and Strata (1981). His first job was on the Bucks Free Press and he went on to work for various newspapers before becoming a publicity officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1980. Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, and decided to become a journalist after his first short story, 'The Hades Business', was published in Science Fantasy magazine when he was fifteen years old.
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