The Carpet People
by Terry Pratchett, David John, Avner Gafni · first published 1971
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For readers who are afraid to start such a huge amount of books and for Discworld readers who haven't read them yet, please have a look to The Carpet People (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpet_People) and The Nome Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy) They are listed as "children's novels"(1) on WP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett)…
on “Ask HN: What were the best fun books you read in 2014?” ↗As an aside, I like to quote this passage from Terry Pratchett's The Carpet People: Other shamen ate the yellow-spotted mushrooms that were found deep in the hair thickets and said things like: ‘Hiiiiyahyahheya! Heyaheyayahyah! Hngh! Hngh!’ which certainly sounded magical. Pismire…
on “Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study” ↗Do you have a source for that? EDIT. Perhaps it's really Terry Pratchett? From Carpet People: > If he concentrated, he could just hear Pismire playing the fluteharp; it was easy to tell, even with all the other instruments in the Deftmenes' own band, by the way the notes went all over the place…
on “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly” ↗Terry Pratchett had some books kind of like this. The Carpet People has characters that live in the fibers of a living room carpet and are subject to mysterious phenomena they don't understand (such as a vacuum cleaner). The Bromeliad Trilogy is similar, although the…
on “‘Robber bees’ invade apiarist’s shop in attempted honey heist” ↗