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{{NDC}} is the second major edition | {{NDC}} is the second major edition of {{DC}}. The hardcover and trade paperback editions include entries from books up to {{NW}}; it was revised again for the paperback edition to include some information from {{WFM}}. Like the updated edition of the original Companion, it removed many older, shorter entries to make way for significant new characters. It also incorporated material from the first few [[:Category:Diary Series|Discworld diaries]], four of which had been published since {{DC}}. | ||
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This new, revised edition of the best-selling guide to the world's most famous fictional world covers its [[Discworld Stuff#Flora, Fauna, and Peoples|flora and fauna]], its [[List of Pratchett characters|outstanding personalities]], its customs, its [[Discworld Stuff#Organisations and groups|institutions]]. | This new, revised edition of the best-selling guide to the world's most famous fictional world covers its [[Discworld Stuff#Flora, Fauna, and Peoples|flora and fauna]], its [[List of Pratchett characters|outstanding personalities]], its customs, its [[Discworld Stuff#Organisations and groups|institutions]]. | ||
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| The New Discworld Companion | |
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| Co-author(s) | Stephen Briggs |
| Illustrator(s) | Stephen Briggs |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| ISBN | 0575075554 |
| Pages | 480 |
| RRP | |
| Main characters | |
| Series | Discworld Series |
| Annotations | View |
| Notes | |
| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
The New Discworld Companion is the second major edition of The Discworld Companion. The hardcover and trade paperback editions include entries from books up to Night Watch; it was revised again for the paperback edition to include some information from The Wee Free Men. Like the updated edition of the original Companion, it removed many older, shorter entries to make way for significant new characters. It also incorporated material from the first few Discworld diaries, four of which had been published since The Discworld Companion.
Blurb
The Discworld started out as fantasy, but now it's real. The seasoned Discworld traveller knows exactly how to get from Madams' Gardens to the Mended Drum (left up Easy Street, right onto Welcome Soap, fork left onto Filigree Street and the Drum is on the left, just opposite the Short Street turn). Travelling around a world so well-defined, but dangerous, without a guide, could be a very courageous choice.
Since the last revision to The Discworld® Companion, new areas of the Disc have been explored, new characters discovered. We've trembled under the chandelier at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, we've flown with vampyres over the mysterious country of Überwald, we've sliced through time with the History Monks and we've marvelled at Mr. Wintler's humorously shaped vegetables.
This new, revised edition of the best-selling guide to the world's most famous fictional world covers its flora and fauna, its outstanding personalities, its customs, its institutions.