© Terry and Lyn Pratchett 1990 (P) Penguin Audio 2023 'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy' Sunday Times The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Moving Pictures is a standalone novel. They're about to discover that the magic of the silver screen might be powerful enough to put an end to, well, everything. Can handle a sword a little') and Theda Withel ('I come from a little town you've probably never heard of') as they battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? As the cliches of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out. Here, the most important thing is to be important.'Ĭameras roll, for the first time, on the Discworld when alchemists discover the excitement of the silver screen. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle. New Lives in the Wild, Across the Channel, and Around the World - Fabulous Non-fiction Featuring Real-life Family Adventures and Fresh Starts.Winners of the 2023 CWA Dagger Awards Announced - Take a look at the very best in crime writing this year.Industry Insight July 2023: Christina Demosthenous of Renegade Books.Headline launches a "Year of Dorothy" celebrating Dorothy Koomson's 20 years in the publishing industry.Women dominate as the longlist is announced for the 10th anniversary of the James Cropper Wainwright Prize 2023.25+ Brilliant Books Based on the Work of the Bard - Fabulous Fiction Inspired by Shakespeare That'll Grip You, Thrill You, and Entertain You.Take a Look at Our July Summary for Books That Will Grip, Entertain and Inspire, Rain or Shine.Which Sizzler Should I Read This Summer? Dive into Our Quiz to Find Your Best Beach Read for Summer 2023.Series of the Month: The Spoils of War Collection by Graham Hurley.The 2023 Booker Prize Longlist is Announced - Read This Year's Booker Dozen.August 2023 Book Club Recommendation: The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner.The seven books that made the shortlist for the 2023 Nota Bene Prize have been announced.The Best Books about Sisterhood - 20+ Tales That Show the Strength of Sisterhood and Female Bonds.Shortlist for the James Cropper Wainwright 10th Anniversary Prize Announced.Related works: A Tie – Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic ( 1997), by Terry Jones – was published based on the game, with a rather more developed plot. While Starship Titanic has many excellent parts – including impressive art deco visuals and numerous moments of genuine hilarity – the whole is, perhaps, less than their sum. The plot, however, is remarkably predictable, many of the puzzles seem arbitrary, and technical limitations mean that the frequent conversations are often frustrating. Such flourishes bring to mind Adams's written work, and the game contains many isolated sequences which are as amusing as anything in his novels. As soon as this has been done, the eponymous Starship crashes into their house, and the player is shanghaied by the ship's Robot crew to perform emergency repairs on their sabotaged artificial intelligences (see AI). The game begins with a markedly metafictional moment the player finds themselves in their suburban home, where they must locate a copy of Starship Titanic and load it into their computer. Starship Titanic, however, also draws heavily on the tradition of text Adventure design exemplified by such works as Planetfall ( 1982) and Adams' own The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1984), both in its tone of sometimes painful obscurity and in its use of a text parser (see Adventures) to enable conversation between the player and computer controlled characters. As in those games, the player must move from one predefined node in space to another, and their ability to interact with the physical environment is strictly limited. Starship Titanic is a graphical Adventure which uses a first person view similar to that of Obsidian ( 1996) or The Journeyman Project ( 1993). Designed by Douglas Adams, Adam Shaikh, Emma Westecott.
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