These are the episode notes and errata for Pratchat episode 86, “Of the Watch the Last”, discussing Terry Pratchett’s thirty-ninth Discworld novel, 2011’s Snuff, with guest Freyja Stokes.
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Notes and Errata
- The episode title adapts one of the common formats for goblin names to describe Snuff in bittersweet terms. The book is the eighth and last in the Watch sub-series, though characters from the Watch books do appear in the final two Discworld novels. (No spoilers about who, though.)
- There are several publicly available theses and academic articles about Terry Pratchett and/or Discworld from Australian scholars, most (but not all) the result of the Pratchett Scholarship at UniSA. Here are are a few we’ve found:
- Arasu P (2019), All the Disc’s a Stage: Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters as Metafiction, Monash University, Melbourne, accessed 8 June 2025.
- Stokes F (2023), The turtle moves : how Terry Pratchett’s Discworld does vernacular theory, UniSA, Adelaide, accessed 8 June 2025.
- Wyld J (2024), Pebbles and the great ocean of truth : artificial & unauthorised paratexts of the Discworld, UniSA, Adelaide, accessed 8 June 2025.
- There are several published collections of Pratchett-related academic writing, including:
- Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works (Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell (eds), 2014)
- Philosophy and Terry Pratchett (Jacob Heald and James B South (eds), 2014)
- Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods – Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature (Marion Rana (ed), 2018)
- Terry Pratchett’s Ethical Worlds: Essays on Identity and Narrative in Discworld and Beyond (Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin (eds), 2020)
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