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Subject: newgroup alt.fan.pratchett
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From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 23:50:57   Y
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This is a newgroup message for the group "alt.fan.pratchett", designed
as a place to discuss the writing of humourous fantasy author Terry
Pratchett. This was discussed on alt.config where the consensus emerged
that this would be a worthwhile newsgroup and alt.fan would be an
appropriate location in the altnet, following in the footsteps of groups
such as alt.fan.douglas-adams.

The charter for alt.fan.pratchett follows (courtesy of Karl Geppart
, the original proposer of the group).

NAME:  alt.fan.pratchett

CHARTER:

  To discuss and share fan information about:

    - To provide a meeting place for ideas of fans of Terry Pratchett

    - To discuss the works of Terry Pratchett and the humour espoused by them
in the manner of alt.fan.douglas-adams.

STATUS:  Unmoderated

RATIONALE:

  Subject
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  Terry Pratchett is a British author who has frequently been compared to
  Douglas Adams (of HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy fame).  He is the author
  of 11 books about a mythical world which is disk shaped and rests on the
  back of 4 giant elephants on the back of a giant Turtle swimming through
  space.  He has the author of Strata & Dark Side of the Sun, two general
  Science fiction books, The Unadulterated Cat, about cats, four books for
  which fans can get hooked on at a younger age (Diggers, Truckers, Wings (I
  think, and one more whose name escapes me), and a insightful look at people
  and humour co-authoured with Neil Gaiman called Good Omens.
  All these books are extremely extremely funny and very popular.

  Interest
  --------

  There is a very large readership of the novels about the Disk World,
  (Rincewind fans unite!) and the lesser known earlier novels.  It would
  be a most useful meeting place for their united ideas/comments/creative
  efforts, in the manner of the other alt.fan groups.

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Craig Harding       ACME BBS: +64 6 355-1342        email: kilroy@acme.gen.nz
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