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The Shepherd's Crown

2015 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett
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The Shepherd's Crown

Summary

The Shepherd's Crown is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (498 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Shepherd's Crown authored Terry Pratchett[3].
  • The Shepherd's Crown received the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book[4].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's genre is fantasy[6].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's part of the series is recorded as Discworld[7].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • The Shepherd's Crown was published on August 27, 2015[10].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's characters is recorded as Tiffany Aching[11].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's has edition or translation is recorded as The Shepherd's Crown[12].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's has edition or translation is recorded as The Shepherd's Crown[13].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's has edition or translation is recorded as Q121998594[14].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "The Shepherd's Crown"}[15].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'IT WAS BORN in the darkness of the Circle Sea; at first just a soft floating thing, washed back and forth by tide after tide.'}[16].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[17].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's form of creative work is recorded as novel[18].
  • The Shepherd's Crown's set in environment is recorded as fictional planet[19].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Prose[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 837a881c-303b-4bbd-a7a1-a246cdfa4bdd[21]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Shepherd's Crown authored Terry Pratchett[3].

Publication

The Shepherd's Crown was released on August 27, 2015[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Its genre is fantasy[6]. Its part of the series is recorded as Discworld[7].

Subject and Themes

The Shepherd's Crown's part of the series is recorded as Discworld[7].

Reception

The Shepherd's Crown received the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book[4].

Why It Matters

The Shepherd's Crown ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (498 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

FAQs

What awards did The Shepherd's Crown receive?

Honors received include Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book[4].

Related Entities

literary work Terry Pratchett United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . sfadb.com. Retrieved . sfadb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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