A Slip of the Keyboard

A Slip of the Keyboard is the first non fiction anthology by Terry Pratchett. It was first published in 2014, with foreword by Neil Gaiman.

A Slip of the Keyboard

Author	Terry Pratchett
Language	English
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	September 14, 2014 (2014-09-14)
Pages	315
ISBN	978-0-857-52122-4

Contents

The anthology is divided into the main sections with contents as follows:

• A Scribbling Intruder
  • Thought Progress (1989)
  • Palmtop (1993)
  • The Choice Word (2000)
  • How to Be a Professional Boxer (2005)
  • Brewer's Boy (1999)
  • Paperback Writer (2003)
  • Advice to Booksellers (1999)
  • No Worries (1998)
  • Conventional Wisdom (2011)
  • Straight from the Heart, via the Groin (2004)
  • Discworld Turns 21 (2004)
  • Kevins (1993)
  • Wyrd Ideas (1999)
  • Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real (2007)
  • Whose Fantasy Are You? (1991)
  • Why Gandalf Never Married (1985)
  • Roots of Fantasy (1989)
  • Elves Were Bastards (1992)
  • Let There Be Dragons (1993)
  • Magic Kingdoms (1999)
  • Cult Classic (2001)
  • Neil Gaiman: Amazing Master Conjuror (2002)
  • 2001 Carnegie Medal Award Speech (2002)
  • Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Speech for Nation (2009)
  • Watching Nation (2009)
  • Doctor Who? (2001)
  • A Word About Hats (2001)
• A Twit and a Dreamer
  • The Big Store (2002)
  • Roundhead Wood, Forty Green (1996)
  • A Star Pupil (2011)
  • On Granny Pratchett (2004)
  • Tales of Wonder and of Porn (2004)
  • Letter to Vector (1963)
  • Writer's Choice (2004)
  • Introduction to Roy Lewis's The Evolution Man (1989)
  • The King and I, or How the Bottom Has Dropped Out of the Wise Man Business (1970)
  • Honey, These Bees Had a Heart of Gold (1976)
  • That Sounds Fungi, It Must Be the Dawn Chorus (1976)
  • Introduction to The Leaky Establishment by David Langford (2001)
  • The Meaning of My Christmas (1997)
  • Alien Christmas (1987)
  • 2001: The Vision and the Reality (2000)
  • The God Moment (2008)
  • A Genuine Absent-minded Professor (2010)
  • Saturdays (2011)
• Days of Rage
  • On Excellence in Schools. Education: What It Means to You (1997)
  • The Orangutans Are Dying (2000)
  • The NHS Is Seriously Injured (2008)
  • I'm Slipping Away a Bit at a Time . . . and All I Can Do Is Watch It Happen (2008)
  • Taxworld (2009)
  • Point Me to Heaven When the Final Chapter Comes (2009)
  • The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Shaking Hands with Death (2010)
  • At Last We Have Real Compassion in Assisted-Dying Guidelines (2010)
  • Assisted Dying: It's Time the Government Gave Us the Right to End Our Lives (2011)
  • Death Knocked and We Let Him In (2011)
  • A Week in the Death of Terry Pratchett (2011)
• And Finally...
  • Terry Pratchett's Wild Unattached Footnotes to Life (1990)