The Carpet People

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The Carpet People
AuthorTerry Pratchett (& Terry Pratchett)
Audio read byTony Robinson (abridged)
Stephen Briggs (unabridged)
Richard Mitchley (unabridged)
David Tennant (50 Years of Terry)
IllustratorTerry Pratchett (original)
Mark Beech (later edition)
Cover artistTerry Pratchett (original)
Josh Kirby (revised)
David Wyatt
Mark Beech
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherColin Smythe (original)
Doubleday (revised)
Publication date
1971-11-01 (original)
1992-06-30 (revised)

The Carpet People is Terry Pratchett’s first published novel. Originally written as “Tales of the Carpet People”, a series of short stories for the Bucks Free Press, he adapted it into a fairly straight (if very imaginative) fantasy adventure novel for children in 1971. He later heavily revised it (and added a lot of jokes) for re-publication in 1992, due to fan demand. He described the result as having "two authors, and they were both the same person”.

Blurb

2010 edition

In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet...

That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power-hungry mouls - and of two Munrung brothers, who set out on an amazing adventure.

It's a story that will come to a terrible end - if someone doesn't do something about it. If everyone doesn't do something about it...

Co-written by Terry Pratchett, aged seventeen, and master storyteller, Terry Pratchett, aged forty-three.

Podcast episodes

Major appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.

Date Show Episode External link
2021-11-08 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret “F5 to Pay Respects” (1/2) thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2021-11-15 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret “Apocalypse Brackets Roundworld” (2/2) thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2022-06-18 Pratchat Book Discussion of Terry Pratchett's The Carpet People (1971 and 1992)[1] YouTube

Other appearances

Episodes where there's significant discussion of the book, but it's not the focus of the episode.

Date Show Episode External link
2012-10-09 The Pratchett Podcast TPP 12 thepratchettpodcast.wordpress.com[2]

Adaptations

To be added.

External links

Footnotes

  1. An annotated version of this discussion with footnote captions was made available to Pratchat subscribers under the title "A Tale of Two Carpets".
  2. Post with info only; episode audio is no longer available.