Transworld brings old Pratchett novels to life

15.06.10 | Catherine Neilan in The Bookseller

Transworld has signed up a new collaboration between Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

The Random House imprint is to publish two as-yet-untitled books, started by Pratchett in 1986, which were left unfinished as he continued with the Discworld series. The as-yet-untitled books - a novel and two short stories - are part of a series about a chain of parallel worlds called The Long Earth

The works are due to see the light of day in spring 2012, 26 years after originally being conceived. They are being written in collaboration with Stephen Baxter, author of Flood, Ark and the Time’s Tapestry and Destiny’s Children series.

The deal was brokered through Colin Smythe and Ralph Vicinanza.

Pratchett has also recently completed I Shall Wear Midnight, the fourth in the Tiffany Aching books, to be published in September, and is already at work on his next Discworld novel for publication in autumn 2011.