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Terry Jones: Publications
- Fairy Tales - 1981
- The Saga of Erik the Viking - 1983 (Children's Book Award 1984)
- Nicobobinus - 1985
- The Knights and the Squire - 1997
- Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic - 1997, a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams. Jones claims to have written the entire book while in the nude.
- The Lady and the Squire - 2001 (nominated for a Whitbread Award)
with Brian Froud*
The Goblins of the Labyrinth - 1986*
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book - 1994*
The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins - 1996 (an abridged re-release of
The Goblins of the Labyrinth, in a smaller format with the colour plates missing)*
Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research - 1996
- Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary - 1980, (updated 1994)
- Foreword to The Quest for King Arthur by David Day - 1995
- Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery with Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher and Juliette Dor - 2003
- Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python - 2004
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LiteratureSOME QUICK NOTES FROM THE UR-SKEKS-IVERSE
I AM IN DETROIT today, sitting in the lobby of WDET, stealing broadband from a student's room at Wayne State University. So I shall offer a few brief follow ups to your very welcome comments. TWO COMMENTERS on my previous post on Gnomes pointed out that I might enjoy Brian Froud and Terry Jones's Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. Indeed I might and have. But not as much as I enjoyed Brian Froud's The World of the Dark Crystal. IT IS, OF COURSE, beautiful. But what I found inspiring, even as a child, is that someone would take The Dark Crystal so seriously, and draw and describe the Ur-Skeks-iverse in such sincere and deranged details. I think it is fair to say that everything I know about Skeksis culture derives from this book. IN OTHER COMMENTS SECTIONS, Brermatt noted that the Battle of Galactia Ride also appeared in the FIRST "Get Smart" movie, "The Nude Bomb." It is so, and I know, because I saw this movie on TV in Australia some years ago, and I was so surprised that I practically went down the drain the wrong way. NOW, however, it is on DVD, and insanely, i09 has the relevant clip in WIDESCREEN. I MUST NOW drive to Ann Arbor. That is all...
Published: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:49:37 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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