Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)
News item dated 16 March 2015
Sir Terry Pratchett, famed and widely loved creator of the Discworld saga and much else, died on 12 March 2015, aged 66. Although he and the world had known this was coming since his 2007 diagnosis with a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, it wasn’t easy to insert that date into his SF Encyclopedia entry. He contributed so very much to the genre party, and had to leave so early.
Goodbye, Terry. Here are some links.
- BBC; more BBC
- The Bookseller
- Change.org petition
- Cory Doctorow; more at BoingBoing
- Nick Harkaway
- Ben Jeapes
- Roz Kaveney
- Making Light
- Chris Maume (Independent)
- Rhianna Pratchett (Telegraph)
- Christopher Priest (Guardian)
- The Register
- Andy Sawyer
- John Scalzi
- SFWA
- Charles Stross
- Michael Swanwick
- Telegraph; also “Sir Terry Pratchett’s schoolboy inspiration revealed”
- Time on Terry’s last tweets
- Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)
- Bruce Weber (New York Times)
- SF Encyclopedia Picture Gallery (currently 85 related covers)