Because I'm sometimes overfocused

[msagara]

... and I'd finished GOING POSTAL, Pratchett's latest novel, and I had reread all of the Watch novels in chronological order and was left with that slightly empty feeling one gets when one hasn't quite finished but there's nothing left to finish, I suddenly remembered that Google Is Our Friend, and, in an act much less lazy than is my wont, dug up a few words from alt.fan.pratchett, posted by the author in question.


"All this being said, at the recent DWcon I did a reading on the Friday
night and gave the audience a choice between part of the next adult
novel ( a Watch novel) and the next Tiffany/Feegle novel. They both got
loud cheers, but the latter's cheer was perceptibly louder. Maybe
there are two roads now."

I'm so excited :D. New Watch novel!

ETA: The new working titles, according to the site that tenebris so kindly pointed out are:

WINTERSMITH (Tiffany novel)
THUD (Watch novel)

Comments

[msagara.livejournal.com]

Pratchett is one of the only authors that, once I start on a set of Theme books, I have to read them all. I've re-read the Watch and the Witch series so many times now...

This didn't happen to me until NIGHT WATCH -- I read it first, and then had to go back and reread all the rest of the Watch books. But oddly enough, GOING POSTAL had the effect of (as mentioned above) making me go and reread all of the Watch books, and they aren't even in it, go figure.

What I love about his work -- well, aside from everything -- is that he consistently gets better with time; his work isn't stale, he's clearly not bored with his creation, and his ability to twine a number of subplots together has also become so seamless it's just sheer joy.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

What I love about his work -- well, aside from everything -- is that he consistently gets better with time

Oh yes -- when I look at Night Watch and something like Equal Rites I can believe they're by the same author, because the style is recognizable, but the growth is incredible. He's clearly a writer who's always pushing his own limits and not content to settle for anything.

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

What I love about his work -- well, aside from everything -- is that he consistently gets better with time; his work isn't stale, he's clearly not bored with his creation, and his ability to twine a number of subplots together has also become so seamless it's just sheer joy.

YES! Exactly. While I enjoy early Pratchett (well, not a huge fan of Rincewind, but...), I truly love later Pratchett. Thief of Time, Carpe Jugulum, and Night Watch all left me in a state of...awe, almost, and I had to go back and read what I had not-quite-missed before.

One of the interesting things about Pratchett is that his characters seem to evolve not just in the books, but between them as well. It's something I only noticed when I went back and reread each book in the Watch series, but the Sam Vimes of Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms have interesting, subtle differences (which, of course, I cannot detail at this time). And this makes sense, though in another writer, I might find it disconcerting.