Kalau ada masalah, mereka memastikan diri mereka berada sejauh mungkin.

Mau bagaimana lagi, Night Watch selalu memastikan bahwa mereka berlari tidak terlalu cepat agar pas sampai ke TKP selalu telat dan tidak perlu berhadapan dengan kriminal. Agak di tengah buku, Colon merekrut 1 anggota lagi, yaitu the Librarian (yap, that adorable orangutan).ĭi awal buku Vimes ditunjukkan sebagai seorang Captain yang kecewa dengan dirinya dan anggota timnya sehingga selalu berada dalam keadaan mabuk.

Waktu itu City Watch masih berupa Night Watch dengan hanya 1 Captain (Vimes) dan 3 anggota: Carrot (masuk dengan sukarela karena ayahnya dapat info yang ketinggalan jaman tentang the Watch), Colon, dan Nobby. Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on 12th March 2015.īuku pertama subserial City Watch dalam serial Discworld, sebuah subserial yang sepertinya dibuat Pratchett untuk memparodikan politik. He was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service. In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter.

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett