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A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

Terry Pratchett

First published 2014
Publisher Doubleday (UK)
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Pal Hansen
Pages [xvii]+336
Price £20.00
ISBN 9780857521224

Month and day of publication from Amazon.com as of 2014-08-21. First printing per full number line. The rear end papers are the same as the front end papers. The introductory pages are not numbered. However the foreword is listed as on page xiii in the table of contents. The cover photograph of the author is a stock photo from Getty Images credited to Pal Hansen .

Year Reviewer Publication
2016 Colin Steele SF Commentary, #91

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Thought Progress Terry Pratchett Essay
7 Palmtop Terry Pratchett Essay
12 The Choice Word Terry Pratchett Essay
14 How to Be a Professional Boxer Terry Pratchett Essay
17 Brewer's Boy Terry Pratchett Essay
20 Paperback Writer Terry Pratchett Essay
24 Advice to Booksellers Terry Pratchett Essay
32 No Worries Terry Pratchett Essay
43 Conventional Wisdom Terry Pratchett Essay
46 Straight from the Heart, Via the Groin Terry Pratchett Essay
68 Discworld Turns 21 Terry Pratchett Essay
73 Kevins Terry Pratchett Essay
78 Wyrd Ideas Terry Pratchett Essay
83 Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real Terry Pratchett Essay
87 Whose Fantasy Are You? Terry Pratchett Essay
89 Why Gandalf Never Married Terry Pratchett Essay
97 Roots of Fantasy Terry Pratchett Essay
103 Elves Were Bastards Terry Pratchett Essay
107 Let There Be Dragons Terry Pratchett Essay
114 Magic Kingdoms Terry Pratchett Essay
120 Cult Classic Terry Pratchett Essay
127 Neil Gaiman: Amazing Master Conjuror Terry Pratchett Essay
132 2001 Carnegie Medal Award Speech Terry Pratchett Essay
137 Boston Globe—Horn Book Award Speech for Nation Terry Pratchett Essay
144 Watching Nation Terry Pratchett Essay
148 Doctor Who? Terry Pratchett Essay
152 A Word About Hats Terry Pratchett Essay
159 The Big Store Terry Pratchett Essay
161 Roundhead Wood, Forty Green Terry Pratchett Essay
163 A Star Pupil Terry Pratchett Essay
165 On Granny Pratchett Terry Pratchett Essay
167 Tales of Wonder and of Porn Terry Pratchett Essay
172 Letter to Vector Terry Pratchett Essay
174 Writer's Choice Terry Pratchett Essay
177 Introduction to Roy Lewis's The Evolution Man Terry Pratchett Essay
180 The King and I: Or How the Bottom Has Dropped Out of the Wise Man Business Terry Pratchett Essay
183 Honey, These Bees Had a Heart of Gold Terry Pratchett Essay
186 That Sounds Fungi, It Must Be the Dawn Chorus Terry Pratchett Essay
189 Introduction to The Leaky Establishment by David Langford Terry Pratchett Essay
193 The Meaning of My Christmas Terry Pratchett Essay
196 Alien Christmas Terry Pratchett Essay
203 2001: The Vision and the Reality Terry Pratchett Essay
209 The God Moment Terry Pratchett Essay
214 A Genuine Absent-Minded Professor Terry Pratchett Essay
237 Saturdays Terry Pratchett Essay
243 On Excellence in Schools: Education: What It Means to You Terry Pratchett Essay
245 The Orangutans Are Dying Terry Pratchett Essay
250 The NHS Is Seriously Injured Terry Pratchett Essay
255 I'm Slipping Away a Bit at a Time... and All I Can Do Is Watch It Happen Terry Pratchett Essay
262 Taxworld: What Is an Author to Do When Every Other Word He Writes Will Be Written for the Chancellor of the Exchequer? Terry Pratchett Essay
264 Point Me to Heaven When the Final Chapter Comes Terry Pratchett Essay
274 The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Shaking Hands with Death Terry Pratchett Essay
293 At Last We Have Real Compassion in Assisted-Dying Guidelines: The DPP's New Guidelines Are Good. People, Not the Diseases, Need to Be in Control Terry Pratchett Essay
295 Assisted Dying: It's Time the Government Gave Us the Right to End Our Lives Terry Pratchett Essay
298 Death Knocked and We Let Him in Terry Pratchett Essay
305 A Week in the Death of Terry Pratchett: The Best-Selling Author and Alzheimer's Sufferer Reflects on the Days Following His Controversial Right-to-Die Documentary Terry Pratchett Essay
313 Terry Pratchett's Wild Unattached Footnotes to Life Terry Pratchett Essay
[xiii]|0.13 Foreword (A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction) Neil Gaiman Essay

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