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Does anyone know where to find the 1978 column Pratchett wrote about Star Wars? It's referenced in the article but I don't see a source and would love to read i

Does anyone know where to find the 1978 column Pratchett wrote about Star Wars? It's referenced in the article but I don't see a source and would love to read it.

probably_wrong 4y ago
The only other information I found was that it was published in the Bath Chronicle. If you have access to their archive, that will narrow it down to "only" 365 issues.
- totalperspectiv 4y ago
  It's been located: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galactic_emperor_from_chief_personal_officer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galact...?
- pmyteh 4y ago
  I've had a look to see what's in the Bodleian and the British Library from there, but it doesn't look like 1978 is online. Post-1998 is on LexisNexis, and the BL's (paid) online service has up to 1950, but there's a gap in the middle. You could almost certainly go and read it in the BL reading room in London, though: their print/microfilm coverage of British newspapers is very good.
  - totalperspectiv 4y ago
    It's been located: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galactic_emperor_from_chief_personal_officer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galact...?
weeblewobble 4y ago
I found a little more info about it but unfortunately no copy: "‘SO, BANG GOES THE PERSONAL TOUCH’, Bath & West Evening Chronicle, 22 April 1978, p. 10. This is TP’s ‘Star Wars‘ piece that he tended to mention when talking of his years at the Chronicle, but I could not track it down when I searched the issues in the British Newspaper Library in Colindale, North London (now closed and moved to the town of Boston Spa). Perhaps it was in an issue missing from their collection, or I was looking in the wrong issues. Star Wars was released in London in December 1977, but only reached Bath the following April. Discovered by David Moger, to whom my thanks. CS"
- totalperspectiv 4y ago
  It's been located: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galactic_emperor_from_chief_personal_officer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galact...?

Does anyone know where to find the 1978 column Pratchett wrote about Star Wars? It's referenced in the article but I don't see a source and would love to read it.

probably_wrong 4y ago

The only other information I found was that it was published in the Bath Chronicle. If you have access to their archive, that will narrow it down to "only" 365 issues.

totalperspectiv 4y ago
It's been located: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galactic_emperor_from_chief_personal_officer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galact...?
pmyteh 4y ago
I've had a look to see what's in the Bodleian and the British Library from there, but it doesn't look like 1978 is online. Post-1998 is on LexisNexis, and the BL's (paid) online service has up to 1950, but there's a gap in the middle. You could almost certainly go and read it in the BL reading room in London, though: their print/microfilm coverage of British newspapers is very good.
- totalperspectiv 4y ago
  It's been located: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galactic_emperor_from_chief_personal_officer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galact...?

weeblewobble 4y ago

I found a little more info about it but unfortunately no copy: "‘SO, BANG GOES THE PERSONAL TOUCH’, Bath & West Evening Chronicle, 22 April 1978, p. 10. This is TP’s ‘Star Wars‘ piece that he tended to mention when talking of his years at the Chronicle, but I could not track it down when I searched the issues in the British Newspaper Library in Colindale, North London (now closed and moved to the town of Boston Spa). Perhaps it was in an issue missing from their collection, or I was looking in the wrong issues. Star Wars was released in London in December 1977, but only reached Bath the following April. Discovered by David Moger, to whom my thanks. CS"

totalperspectiv 4y ago
It's been located: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galactic_emperor_from_chief_personal_officer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galact...?