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Title: Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch
Author(s): Rhianna Pratchett, Gabrielle Kent
Release year: 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books

Why in Database: In this book, related to the Discworld series, there is one turtle fragment, quoted below:

Certainly a lot more than lightfoot, the tortoise Queen Magrat once had as a familiar. I saw one at a fair once and it looked as thought it wouldn’t strike fear into anything except lettuce.

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Title: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Quiz Diary 2019
Author(s): Discworld Emporium
Release year: 2018
Publisher: Gollancz

Why in Database: Turtles appear in this book in two forms, as text and image. Image-wise, we have two pictures, A’Tuin seen from above and with the Discworld with a question mark – this graphic is used on the cover, at the beginning and at the end of the book. Inside we also have a graphic with Om from the Small Gods, which is used twice.

There are more text mentions, we list them all!

The first turtle mention is in question about the name of one of the elephants, in which A`Tuin is mentioned.

Your bonus for 3 points!
4. Along with Tubul, Great T’Phon and Berilia, what is the name of the fourth elephant still standing atop Great A’Tuin’s meteor-pocked shell?

Another turtle appears in an anagram question (the answer is “Golem Trust”).

Anagrams
Organisations
V) Turtle Smog

The next question concerns the form in which Om appeared in the Small Gods, to which the answer is of course the tortoise. In this question we also have one of the cases of using the above-described image of Om and Brutha.

77. In small Gods, in which manifestations is The Great God Om stuck?
A very pissed-off torotise

The next two pieces are from a set of questiobs in which we have to guess which book the quoted fragments come from, being the first two sentences in those books.

In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part … See … Great A’Tuin the turtle comes,

Now consider the tortoise and the eagle.

The first fragment is The Color of Magic, the second is Small Gods.

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Title: Discworld (Reformed) Vampyres’ Diary 2003
Author(s): Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby
Release year: 2002
Publisher: Gollancz

Why in Database: The turtle appears in this Discworld-related book only in the form of an image of A`Tuin, which is used in the advert section at the very end. This section is a mix of in-discworld style adverts and real ones, A`Tuin appears in one of these real ones.

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Title: Discworld’s Unseen University Diary 1998
Author(s): Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby
Release year: 1997
Publisher: Gollancz

Why in Database: The turtle appears in this Discworld tie-in book very symbolically, only in the form of a picture with A`Tuin at the very end.

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