title: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: Praise for Terry Pratchett<br /><br />One of the worlds most delightful writers. <br />  Cory Doctorow, <i>Boing Boing</i><br /> <br /> Some writers simply possess the Gift. No matter what they bring out . . . its sure to be compulsively readable. Thats certainly the case withTerry Pratchett. <br />  Michael Dirda, <i>The Washington Post Book World</i><br /> <br /> The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody . . . who deals with death with startling originality. He writes amazing sentences.<br />  A. S. Byatt, <i>The New York Times </i><br /> <i></i><br />Clever . . . insightful. . . . [Pratchetts] wry wit is as good as gold.<br />  Lylah M. Alphonse, <i>The Boston Globe</i><br /> <br /> One of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun, and the deflationary three-part list. <br />  Ben Aaronovitch,<i>The Guardian </i>(London)<br /><br />What Pratchett does is not just great, but unparalleled. In five hundred years, it wont be the Nobel laureates who are being studied. Its going to be this guy.<br />  Brandon Sanderson, Tor.com
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  # [Copyright](ReporterThe_toc.html#copy-1)
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are
  
  
  used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons,
  living or dead, is coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2002 Kelly Lange
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  [Copyright](ReporterThe_copy.html)
  
  
  [Dedication](ReporterThe_dedi-1.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](ReporterThe_chap-1.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](ReporterThe_chap-2.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](ReporterThe_chap-3.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](ReporterThe_chap-4.h