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** About Pratchett as a gamer, there's the quote about the (terracotta) Red Army in ''Interesting Times'':
{{quote| "What? ''[[Lemmings]]''? Merely because the red army can fight, dig, march and climb and is controlled by little icons? Can't imagine how anyone thought that... Not only did I wipe ''Lemmings'' from my hard disc, [[Just One More Level|I overwrote it so's I couldn't get it back]]."}}
** There is also a suspicion, noted by fans versed in both ''ouevres'', that Terry has more than a passing knowledge of the works of that great Gothic/heavy rock band, the [[Blue Oyster Cult (Music)|Blue Oyster Cult]]. The family motto Latinified for the extended Mort family is in itself a dead giveaway: ''Non Timetis Messor'', or ''Have No Timidity Towards He Who Brings In The Harvest''. The song itself is used as a running gag throughout Hogfather, and evidence has been garnered from the books that points to homage references to other BÖC songs. Interestingly enough, the band themselves may be aware of Pratchett and may have reciprocated the homage, or paid homage of their own. Take a look at the back cover of ''Cult Classics'' and then go read [[Reaper Man]]. See here:-
*** And of course, there's the Yetis, which in his world can meditate, live out the next few minutes, die, and then time-jump back into their meditative self with the knowledge of what is going to kill them. In other words, quicksave and quickload.
** By the way, he also has a hobby of growing carnivorous plants.
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** According to a recent blog post, he is apparently a fan of ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]''.
** He has also mentioned being a fan of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''
** He's also a ''[[
** He also wrote the only episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' in Seasons 3, 4, or 5 on which J. Michael Straczynski received no writing credit ("Day of the Dead").
** British RPG magazine ''Imagine'' was his first publisher with two of his early short stories, ''Featherquest'' in 1984 (#14) and ''How to Sell the Ponti Bridge'' in 1985 (#24).
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* Scottish thriller writer Ian Rankin wrote an arc for ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'', named "Dark Entries".
* Daniel Suarez gets so many of the technical details right in his novel ''[[Daemon]]'' that he's obviously an accomplished hacker in his own right. So much so that you have to wonder how much [[Conspiracy Theory|practical research]] he may have done on how to write a Daemon like the one in the book...
* If [[Douglas Adams]] was still alive with his wholly technologically obsessed self, he would be more than a match for [[Stephen Fry]] in the race of [[Fan Boy|fanboying]] over Apple products - according to Fry, he was the owner of the first ever Apple computer in the UK (though some say Fry bought the first one). And before that, he was a huge fan of ''[[
* [[Jim Butcher]], of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', qualifies. He quotes on the forums. He's clearly researched everything. He's a big fan of Tolkien. In fact, he even mentioned that if Balrogs were to appear in the Dresden Files, they would have wings, since that's more annoying for Harry. That's not what makes this. No, what makes this is that he hangs out in boffer [[LARP|LARPs]], and had already made Harry Dresden on ''[[City of Heroes]]'', along with Murphy and Marcone.
** He was also involved in a very hands-on capacity in developing a Dresden Files pen-and-paper RPG, and specifically added mechanics to the novels before he intended to so they could be added to the game. He's also gone on record that, despite being an avid RPG gamer, he will never play in a Dresden Files game as he would be ''that guy'' in the game. "That IS how it works and I'll put it in the next book just to prove it!"
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