A Blink of the Screen

A Blink of the Screen is a 2012 collection of short fiction by Terry Pratchett. Spanning the author's entire career, the collection contains almost all of his short fiction, whether or not set in the Discworld.

Contents

 * Foreword by A. S. Byatt
 * Non-Discworld Shorter Writings
 * 1) "The Hades Business" (1963)
 * 2) "Solution" (1964)
 * 3) "The Picture" (1965)
 * 4) "The Prince and the Partridge" (1968)
 * 5) "Rincemangle, The Gnome of Even Moor" (1973)
 * 6) "Kindly Breathe in Short, Thick Pants" (1976)
 * 7) "The Glastonbury Tales" (1977)
 * 8) "There's No Fool Like an Old Fool Found in an English Queue" (1978)
 * 9) "Coo, They've Given Me the Bird" (1978)
 * 10) "And Mind the Monoliths" (1978)
 * 11) "The High Meggas" (1986)
 * 12) "Twenty Pence, with Envelope and Seasonal Greeting" (1987)
 * 13) "Incubust" (1988)
 * 14) "Final Reward" (1988)
 * 15) "Turntables of the Night" (1989)
 * 16) "#ifdef DEBUG + 'world/enough' + 'time'" (1990)
 * 17) "Hollywood Chickens" (1990)
 * 18) "The Secret Book of the Dead" (1991)
 * 19) "Once and Future" (1995)
 * 20) "FTB" (1996)
 * 21) "Sir Joshua Easement: A Biographical Note" (2010)


 * Discworld Shorter Writings
 * 1) "Troll Bridge" (1992)
 * 2) "Theatre of Cruelty" (1993)
 * 3) "The Sea and Little Fishes" (1998)
 * 4) "The Ankh-Morpork National Anthem" (1999)
 * 5) "Medical Notes" (2002)
 * 6) "Thud: A Historical Perspective" (2002)
 * 7) "A Few Words from Lord Havelock Vetinari" (2002)
 * 8) "Death and What Comes Next" (2002)
 * 9) "A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices" (2005)
 * 10) "Minutes of the Meeting to Form the Proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts" (2007)
 * 11) "The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame playing cards" (2009)


 * Appendix
 * 1) Deleted extract from "The Sea and Little Fishes" (1998)
 * 2) List of Illustrations