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Title: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: rafletcher on 12 March, 2015, 03:20:53 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: PhilO on 12 March, 2015, 03:22:50 pm
 :'(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: PeteB99 on 12 March, 2015, 03:23:20 pm
 :(  :(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Vince on 12 March, 2015, 03:25:02 pm
How sad. :(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Clare on 12 March, 2015, 03:25:12 pm
Damn, that's sad.

 :'(

Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: interzen on 12 March, 2015, 03:26:42 pm
As one of his more famous characters might say:

OH BUGGER!

Not altogether unexpected, but very sad nonetheless.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: tiermat on 12 March, 2015, 03:30:31 pm
 :'( :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: woollypigs on 12 March, 2015, 03:30:53 pm
THIS WAY, SIR ...
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Steph on 12 March, 2015, 03:40:17 pm
THIS WAY, SIR ...
;D
The best tribute so far.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: fuzzy on 12 March, 2015, 03:40:42 pm
I think Granny Weatherwax might have something to say about that :(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Chris S on 12 March, 2015, 03:47:15 pm
I never really got on with his books, but he seemed a really nice chap.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ham on 12 March, 2015, 03:58:55 pm
Buggerit  :'(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ruthie on 12 March, 2015, 04:06:33 pm
 :'(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: TimO on 12 March, 2015, 05:17:46 pm
I powered up a new PC earlier, and as is my wont, brought up the BBC News webpage to test the browser and networking, and this came up as Breaking News. :(

I started reading many of his books, too many years back, and used to occasionally see replies from him in threads that I was participating in, on the alt.fan.pratchett newsgroup.  Even then, not many authors participated in newsgroups discussing their work, but he did, and was excellent and amusing.

It was horrible when Iain M Banks passed on a couple of years back, but this is worse.  As others have said, not entirely unexpected, but not something I wanted to see, nevertheless.

Quote from: his Twitter account (https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036599047258112)
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Dibdib on 12 March, 2015, 05:24:06 pm
Very sad to hear about this earlier. I was lucky enough to meet him once, and he was a thoroughly excellent chap - I can't think of anyone who has more time and energy to give to their fans.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Kim on 12 March, 2015, 05:47:12 pm
Very sad to hear about this earlier. I was lucky enough to meet him once, and he was a thoroughly excellent chap - I can't think of anyone who has more time and energy to give to their fans.

+1

His books kept me sane (FCVO sane) through some fairly miserable times.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 12 March, 2015, 05:51:25 pm
Very sad to hear about this earlier. I was lucky enough to meet him once, and he was a thoroughly excellent chap - I can't think of anyone who has more time and energy to give to their fans.

+1

His books kept me sane (FCVO sane) through some fairly miserable times.

I met/was in the same room with him a few times at various Eastercons - both him and Iain (M) Banks were ever present back then and were equally generous to their fans in terms of the time they devoted to them.

I was privileged (as were all present) to get early Terry reading previews of several scenes from his books - memorably Guards, Guards and Witches Abroad.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 March, 2015, 06:09:39 pm
I never really got on with his books, but he seemed a really nice chap.

That's precisely how I feel.

My younger son graduated from Tolkien to Pratchett and we have a large collection of Pratchett on a shelf in Graham's old bedroom. I tried several times to read them, but they just didn't click for me. That's a bit of a surprise to me because I read a good deal of Douglas Adams, who I would have thought was a similar genre. Adams, of course, died even younger.

I recall one amusing anecdote about Terry Pratchett which I think I heard on the radio. He had gone, with a friend, to a record shop to buy one of these new-fangled CD things. He was a very indecisive man, apparently, and couldn't make up his mind which of two CDs he should buy. He hummed and harred for quite some time until his friend lost patience.

"For Christ's sake, Terry, you are a multi-millionaire. Why don't you buy them both?"
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 March, 2015, 06:45:37 pm
Bah and, moreover, buggrit >:(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: TimO on 12 March, 2015, 08:02:38 pm
... I recall one amusing anecdote about Terry Pratchett which I think I heard on the radio. He had gone, with a friend, to a record shop to buy one of these new-fangled CD things. He was a very indecisive man, apparently, and couldn't make up his mind which of two CDs he should buy. He hummed and harred for quite some time until his friend lost patience.

"For Christ's sake, Terry, you are a multi-millionaire. Why don't you buy them both?"

:)

It's far better that we remember him with grins and chuckles, than depression and crying into our beer.

Thanks for that Wow, it made me smile.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: interested on 12 March, 2015, 08:43:06 pm
 :-[ Sad feeling.
I really enjoyed many of his books, especially his two first Discworld novels. So funny, so full of satire and obscure references.
 
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: caerau on 12 March, 2015, 09:03:23 pm
i made the mistake of ignoring his books for a long time because of the first two discworld novels - Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic yes?  I am a big Douglas Adams fan and they were poor mans DNA frankly - for me anyways.


But he found his stride in later books which were fantastic - but that's me.


Very sad news - bit surprised to be honest, I though it took a lot longer to die from Alzheimer's - most die of something else in the meantime.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Kim on 12 March, 2015, 10:20:23 pm
i made the mistake of ignoring his books for a long time because of the first two discworld novels - Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic yes?  I am a big Douglas Adams fan and they were poor mans DNA frankly - for me anyways.


But he found his stride in later books which were fantastic - but that's me.

I think the first story (those two books) was very much a send-up of the taking-itself-too-seriously fantasy genre that was prevalent at the time, and is what came as a breath of fresh air to many readers.  On re-reading, the main thing they have going for them is Rincewind.

IMHO the series really got going with Guards Guards.


As for comparisons to DNA, I always got the impression that Pratchett had a lot more fun writing Douglas Adams stories than Douglas Adams ever did.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ham on 12 March, 2015, 11:46:52 pm
Actually, the problem with the first two books was that there was far too much in them, too many ideas, too many concepts, too many characters. too much derivation and too much originality, both at the same time.

He had the ability to distil the human state down to a couple of words, leaving you smiling and thinking at the same time. Take a moment to read the Guardina's list of top 15 quotes: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/mar/12/terry-pratchett-in-quotes-15-of-the-best

I discovered him shortly before Light Fantastic, the new edition was always a highpoint of the year, the world has lost a star.

Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 March, 2015, 11:59:57 pm
Quote from: pterry
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

I think I may have to steal this.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: simonp on 13 March, 2015, 01:29:16 am
Just reading some nice tributes on Twitter. Before I got into Audax, Discworld books were how I kept my sleep deprivation levels up.

"Reflected sound of underground spirits" still makes me smile inwardly 20 years later.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 March, 2015, 10:11:01 am
Monstrous regiment is fantastic. I remember my stepson (big pratchett fan) buying a copy, reading it then looking confused "It's all political". Well, quite a few of the books have political undertones. The impact of 'financial services' on small people, racism is a particular theme in the discworld novels.

He will be greatly missed.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ham on 13 March, 2015, 12:20:30 pm
I can't pass an Odeon without thinking of the Odium, the first moving picture house. Well, it was a room with lots of people stuck together in the hot and dark, wasn't it?
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Steph on 13 March, 2015, 01:04:46 pm
I remember how stuffy the establishment was about him. Some tosser who had clearly never read any of his work spoke of "adolescent masturbatory fantasy". Another po-faced twunt said on TV that his writing was "for the functionally illiterate"
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Kim on 13 March, 2015, 01:07:01 pm
I remember how stuffy the establishment was about him. Some tosser who had clearly never read any of his work spoke of "adolescent masturbatory fantasy". Another po-faced twunt said on TV that his writing was "for the functionally illiterate"

They were just jealous because he had a cool hat.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2015, 01:23:56 pm
I remember how stuffy the establishment was about him. Some tosser who had clearly never read any of his work spoke of "adolescent masturbatory fantasy". Another po-faced twunt said on TV that his writing was "for the functionally illiterate"

They were just jealous because he had a cool hat.

(Ponders whether the combination of Sir Terry and bobb's hat would have worked)

(Decides it probably wouldn't)

If $BOOK is read and enjoyed then it might lead the reader on to reading other books.  Admittedly the likelihood of someone making the jump from the Discworld to Martin Amis is slim, but so is the likelihood of anyone who has read a Martin Amis novel ever reading another Martin Amis novel (sample size=1).
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Morrisette on 13 March, 2015, 02:36:52 pm
Very sad news. I grew up with Sir Terry. Somewhere I have a letter he sent to me in reply to a (rather gushing) fan letter a teen-aged me wrote to him about, IIRC, Soul Music. He'd clearly read my letter, and answered it personally. I thought that was great, still do.

His writing has passed into our everyday use. Bad hair has been a Magrat day since Witches Abroad. We often cook 'curry with named meat' in Chez Morrisette, cursing the goddess Anoia when the ladle gets stuck in the drawer....

How can he be gone? This has made me very sad  :'(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 March, 2015, 02:43:12 pm
Pratchett-coined phrases that have made their way into daily use (well, in our household at least)

"Buggerit millenium hand and shrimp!"

"CMOT"

ANY mention of the word 'moist' is followed by 'von lipwig'

"I An't Ded"

Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: caerau on 13 March, 2015, 02:54:45 pm
I used to play a silly role playing game called Nethack a long time ago.  I was extremely delighted once when I entered a portal and came down in Ankh Morpork  ;D
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 March, 2015, 02:55:34 pm
I used to play a silly role playing classic game called Nethack a long time ago.  I was extremely delighted once when I entered a portal and came down in Ankh Morpork  ;D

FTFY
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2015, 03:39:24 pm
Long ago onna nother corner of teh Intarwebs I had an alternate id viz. Foul Ole Ron :D
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ham on 13 March, 2015, 03:51:13 pm
Oh yes http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31867210
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: T42 on 13 March, 2015, 03:52:07 pm
Very sad indeed.  For dastards, plots and evil puns there were none like him.

Interesting trivium: Back in the 70s, a while after Ringworld, Larry Niven wrote a survey of possible kinds of artificial worlds: the Ringworld, the Dyson Sphere and several others. Of one of them he said "you could take all the matter in your system and form it into a disc.  You'd put a hole in the middle and bob the sun up and down to create day and night.  The shadows would always be long and dark, but it'd be a great place to set a swords and sorcery novel."

The first Discworld novel appeared some years later.  The cosmology was a bit different, but I always wondered if TP had read that Niven article.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: T42 on 13 March, 2015, 03:54:16 pm
Oh yes http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31867210

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: woollypigs on 13 March, 2015, 04:02:18 pm
http://xkcd.com/1498/
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: caerau on 13 March, 2015, 04:03:25 pm
I used to play a silly role playing classic game called Nethack a long time ago.  I was extremely delighted once when I entered a portal and came down in Ankh Morpork  ;D

FTFY


 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: ian on 13 March, 2015, 04:04:35 pm
Never got on the with the books, but he seemed a nice chap.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 March, 2015, 04:14:50 pm
I used to play a silly role playing classic game called Nethack a long time ago.  I was extremely delighted once when I entered a portal and came down in Ankh Morpork  ;D

FTFY


 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
In a meeting at work we debated what we could port onto (very small) Linux. I suggested nethack, a youngish engineer said "What's that?". His boss gave him a sharp look and said "Remind me again why we employed you."
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: caerau on 13 March, 2015, 04:20:05 pm
I used to play a silly role playing classic game called Nethack a long time ago.  I was extremely delighted once when I entered a portal and came down in Ankh Morpork  ;D

FTFY


 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
In a meeting at work we debated what we could port onto (very small) Linux. I suggested nethack, a youngish engineer said "What's that?". His boss gave him a sharp look and said "Remind me again why we employed you."


 ;D   First character I ever ascended was a tourist  :smug:
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: interested on 13 March, 2015, 04:38:17 pm
The first Discworld novel appeared some years later.  The cosmology was a bit different, but I always wondered if TP had read that Niven article.

Yes, actually Pratchett's pre-Discworld Sci-Fi story "Strata" is a spoof on Niven's Ringworld series. Allegedly Larry Nivens read it and was pleased with it.
http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A666119

"The Colour of Magic" and "Light Fantastic" are rather superb examples of menippean satire, full of allusions and spoofs of scientific debates (the steady gait theory instead of steady state theory), board and roleplaying games, Greek mythology and Homer's Ulysses, though some of the classic intertextuality apparently are from movies, not from the classic texts. There is also H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu, and several fantasy spoofs including "Cohen the Barbarian". Basically Pratchett was inspired by a broad wealth of books, movies and current affairs, and poked fun at it too.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Steph on 13 March, 2015, 05:24:47 pm
As part of my final assessments for my language degree, I had to choose, analyse and contrast two texts, with particular regard to creativity and intertextuality.

I chose the start of 'Good Omens', with a paragraph from each author (TP and Gaiman) and in contrast, the section of Stross' 'A Colder War' in which he lists the failings of previous POTUSAs. Needless to say, the HPL references were numerous.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: caerau on 13 March, 2015, 06:16:30 pm
Ooh an h2g2 link - I am an old hand on that site - nice to see it linked  :thumbsup:   


Very much a place of Terry Pratchett style fandom
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 March, 2015, 06:31:48 pm
I only read a couple of his books and that was years ago. Always seemed a lovely chap though.
I downloaded The Colour of Money last night onto my Kindle.
39 more Disc Worlds to go for me so I am luckier than a lot of people.

Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: andrewc on 13 March, 2015, 07:28:21 pm
Another one who's never read any of his stuff,  there just seemed so much of it & I didn't have the shelf space.

I'm amused by this https://www.change.org/p/death-bring-back-terry-pratchett (https://www.change.org/p/death-bring-back-terry-pratchett)  :D
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 March, 2015, 08:44:31 pm
I have just recalled that my younger son used to play an online shoot-em-up called Unreal Tournament. He was extremely good at it (World top 50 or some such). His UT name was "Luggage".
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: TimO on 13 March, 2015, 09:03:55 pm
Yes, actually Pratchett's pre-Discworld Sci-Fi story "Strata" is a spoof on Niven's Ringworld series. ...

I did like Strata immensely, and The Dark Side of the Sun, to a lesser degree.  Whilst I love the Discworld series, it's a shame he didn't write many other books like those two.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: barakta on 14 March, 2015, 04:37:30 pm
I have never entirely managed to get on with PTerry's books but I am surrounded by huge Pratchett fans and have absorbed a lot of the cultural references by osmosis and I do think a number of his ideas were enormously clever. He also seemed like a genuinely lovely person who managed his fame with dignity and kindness.

I didn't agree with his assisted suicide views but I am glad he used what time he had left to increase awareness of dementias which are enormously under researched and supported considering their prevalence in society.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Bledlow on 14 March, 2015, 05:03:47 pm
The first Discworld novel appeared some years later.  The cosmology was a bit different, but I always wondered if TP had read that Niven article.

Yes, actually Pratchett's pre-Discworld Sci-Fi story "Strata" is a spoof on Niven's Ringworld series. Allegedly Larry Nivens read it and was pleased with it.
http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A666119
First of his books I read. I have a 1980s paperback.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: mattc on 14 March, 2015, 05:14:33 pm
Another one who's never read any of his stuff,  there just seemed so much of it & I didn't have the shelf space.

I'm amused by this https://www.change.org/p/death-bring-back-terry-pratchett (https://www.change.org/p/death-bring-back-terry-pratchett)  :D
Andrew:
- shame on you. Thats no excuse!
- thanks - that's brilliant.

Didcot library has filled a special stand entirely with Pratchett's books.    :'(    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: T42 on 15 March, 2015, 09:40:50 pm
The first Discworld novel appeared some years later.  The cosmology was a bit different, but I always wondered if TP had read that Niven article.

Yes, actually Pratchett's pre-Discworld Sci-Fi story "Strata" is a spoof on Niven's Ringworld series. Allegedly Larry Nivens read it and was pleased with it.
http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A666119

"The Colour of Magic" and "Light Fantastic" are rather superb examples of menippean satire, full of allusions and spoofs of scientific debates (the steady gait theory instead of steady state theory), board and roleplaying games, Greek mythology and Homer's Ulysses, though some of the classic intertextuality apparently are from movies, not from the classic texts. There is also H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu, and several fantasy spoofs including "Cohen the Barbarian". Basically Pratchett was inspired by a broad wealth of books, movies and current affairs, and poked fun at it too.

The fun-poking was one of the most enjoyable aspects.  The references were sometimes quite educational, e.g. The Monstrous Regiment.  And I loved the way he explained the Fat Mines of Überwald, which predated The Fifth Element, and then sited them in the Schmaltzberg.

Damn. First Douglas Adams, then Terry Pratchett.  Who's left?
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 March, 2015, 10:32:45 pm
I thought his later books were better. I really didn't get on with anything containing Rincewind, but I like the Tiffany Aching books and enjoyed the later Sam Grimes and the Moist Von Lipwig books. I think the first one that really clicked for me though was Mort.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Steph on 16 March, 2015, 12:25:00 am
And you speak for a large number of people with that. Read Sourcery to find an early and jarring incarnation of Esme Weatherwax, then compare her with the great character she became, or if you want Rincewind, compare the R from Interesting Times or The Last Continent with the irritant in the first two books.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: fuzzy on 16 March, 2015, 02:39:55 pm
I thought his later books were better. I really didn't get on with anything containing Rincewind, but I like the Tiffany Aching books and enjoyed the later Sam Grimes and the Moist Von Lipwig books. I think the first one that really clicked for me though was Mort.

Sam Vimes is my favourite character in the series. In all likelihood due to our professional outlook. The passages about Sam standing in doorways, collar turned up against the rain, knowing exactly where he was in the city due to the feel of the cobbles through the thin soles of his boots etc. I was probably at my most professionally content during the early years of my policemanship, 3- 4 a.m. on a miserable winter morning, foot patrol in the town centre rattling doors, gannex mac collar turned up to stop the drips off the brim of my helmet rolling down my neck, hiding in shop doorways, puffing on a crafty fag or watching the early morning ner do wells as they prowled for something illegal to do. Happy days.

Many of the successful characters are part of a double act- Esme Weatherwax and Gytha Ogg, Vimes and The Patrician, Carrot and Angua, Fred Colon and Nobby Nobs. The interplay between them is often a joy. Simple but funny.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ruthie on 18 March, 2015, 09:14:06 pm
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/no-grim-reaper-told-2015031396200
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: TheLurker on 19 March, 2015, 06:03:04 am
Time for YACF to Go Postal?  :)

X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/18/sir_terry_pratchett_http_header/

In other news.  There are two unpublished Pterry books waiting on the slips.  A Tiffany Aching book (The Shepherd's Crown) to be published in Oct. this year and a Long Earth (The Long Utopia) don't know when. Both completed last year.

I shall miss Vimes and Vetinari, all the others as well, but especially that pair.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 March, 2015, 02:49:54 pm
I'm working my way through the Disc World books. Currently up to No 4 "Mort". Cracking description of an over frilly teenagers bedroom:

"The whole room wasn't so much furnished as lingeried"

made me spill my tea :)
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Bledlow on 24 March, 2015, 04:23:50 pm
I wish he'd spent his time on something else, not those Long Earth books.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ham on 24 March, 2015, 08:08:06 pm
I think the problem is, he didn't spend much time on them.... especially the later ones.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Bledlow on 13 April, 2015, 07:55:12 am
Ah. Could be.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: spesh on 13 June, 2015, 02:15:32 pm
In other news.  There are two unpublished Pterry books waiting on the slips.  A Tiffany Aching book (The Shepherd's Crown) to be published in Oct. this year and a Long Earth (The Long Utopia) don't know when. Both completed last year.

Rhianna Pratchett has confirmed that The Shepherd's Crown will definitely be the last Discworld book. She has no intention of writing any Discworld books herself, nor will permission be granted for other authors to do so.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/12/terry-pratchett-daughter-fans-shepherds-crown-last-discworld-novel

I think that is the best decision all round. Even if PTerry had accumulated enough notes and background material to given other authors a starting point, the track record of other people trying to pick up the reins in any given literary canon post-Author Existence Failure has been somewhat... mixed. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's butchering of Frank Herbert's Dune legacy is often held up as a prime example of how it can go wrong.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: caerau on 14 June, 2015, 10:20:08 am
I thought Frank Herbert managed a good job of that himself when he was still alive personally.  Chapterhouse Dune is purest twaddle of the first degree.  Which is a shame as the early three Dune novels are absolute classics, particularly the first one.


Having said that I did once pick up a copy of one of the new ones and - oh lord - yes he would have been spinning in his grave.  I made through about 5 pages.  The guy who finished off Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series in contrast, did a pretty damn good job however, so it's not all one way traffic.


Terry Pratchett was so prolific that surely there's no need for any of that nonsense.



Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: microphonie on 14 June, 2015, 12:50:20 pm
Good to see The Long Earth series has been completed - have recently read the first two & am about to start The Long Mars.

Just finished Raising Steam - was nice to read of the invention of the velocipede right at the end, but sad that we'll never find out if he'd have written a cycling-based story...
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: fuzzy on 15 June, 2015, 09:58:57 am
I'm not convinced by KW Jeter's follow on books to Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep. They seemed to turn into 2 books of splurge to follow his first which was tolerable.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Torslanda on 16 June, 2015, 12:42:26 am
Long ago onna nother corner of teh Intarwebs I had an alternate id viz. Foul Ole Ron :D

How are things at McLaren?* Considering conceptualising conflagration or extolling extracting erstwhile digits?

*EXPECTATIONS OF A BLOCK-BOOKING IN WORTHING . . . <Copyright: Jo Burt>
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ham on 19 July, 2015, 12:39:21 pm
I've just pre-ordered this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shaking-Hands-Death-Terry-Pratchett-ebook/dp/B00ZYYGIEY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

Think others might want to (esp @ £1.49)

Ooops - alert - I already has it in "Slip of the keyboard". Oh well.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: Ham on 08 January, 2016, 09:52:25 pm
Every now and again I sign a Change.org petition.

This is now AND again

https://www.change.org/p/iupac-joint-institute-for-nuclear-research-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-name-new-element-117-octarine-in-honour-of-terry-pratchett-s-discworld

Ook.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
Post by: T42 on 09 January, 2016, 07:45:13 am
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