Extract from The Time-Travelling Caveman

[Tonyblack]

Here's one of the stories from The Time-Travelling Caveman, by Sir Terry Pratchett.

 

[=Tamar]

Yay! Thanks, Tony.

 

[RathDarkblade]

Thanks, Tony! That was fun.

 

[pip]

Just seen my copy has dispatched. Not the same as a novel but still excited to read new to me stories from pratchett

 

[=Tamar]

Um... spoiler alert?

There's a rather familiar date in that story. I really hope there's a note in the back of the book that says whether or not the date was originally a different one.

 

[Molokov]

I've read through the published book of stories now -- can confirm that in at least two of the stories, it says "now" is "2020" when obviously the original story would have had the date of when it was written (early 1970s, most likely). It doesn't affect the story in any way, and is one of a few minor noticeable edits which possibly make the stories more palatable for the children of today. On the whole, I don't think they touched Terry's language or references all that much (there are many which refer to things which would have been fairly normal in everyday life in the 70s but are somewhat rare or unknown to today's kids).

 

[Tiffany]

I loved the book, but then I am a big kid at heart.