Title: A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
Author(s): Terry Pratchett
Release year: 2012
Publisher: Doubleday
Why in Database: The Blink of a Screen is, as subtitle points out, a collection of stories by Terry Pratchetts. Most are non-discworld, but a few are directly related to this series. There are three turtle mentions inside.
The first mention is made in the text “The Secret Book of the Dead”:
Our tortoise, being in the know Buried himself three years ago.
Second fragment is in form of a footnote in “Theatre of Cruelty”:
Which is flat and goes through space on the back of an enormous turtle, and why not…
Third mention is in story “The Sea and Litthe Fishes”:
They’d told her the world was round and flat, which was common sense, and went through space on the back of four elephants standing on the shell of a turtle, which didn’t have to make sense. It
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