Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

There is always time for another last minute

The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.