When I started doing this about 35 years ago, I was making weird stuff out on the fringe.
You will be deeply missed.Your fingerprints are all over TV these days - “Good Omens,” “American Gods,” the feature “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” and “Lucifer.” How did you engineer a takeover of TV? Another continues the tale with “Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.” The exchange is also posted on the account of his daughter, Rhianna Pratchett.įarewell, Sir Terry. “AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER,” one post reads in Death’s typical all-caps style. That explains why, if you go to Terry Pratchett and Rob Wilkin’s shared Twitter account, Terry’s meeting with Death is represented as a story. In Discworld, Death was a seven-foot tall skeleton with a pale horse and friendly fascination for humanity, tasked with guiding souls into the next world. In a roundabout way Pratchett wasn’t a stranger to Death, who appeared as a character in most of his books. His legacy will endure for decades to come.” “Over the last few years, it was his writing that sustained him. “Terry faced his Alzheimer’s disease (an ’embuggerance’, as he called it) publicly and bravely,” Finlay continued. In recent years, Pratchett was also a strong supporter of Alzheimer’s and dementia research, due in large part to his own 2007 Alzheimer’s diagnosis. “As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world: He did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humor and constant invention.” “In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him,” Transworld Publishers’ Larry Finlay said.
The author passed away at home with his family. Pratchett was widely acclaimed for his work on over 70 books, including the popular Discworld series and the novel Good Omens he co-authored with Neil Gaiman. The End.- Terry Pratchett March 12, 2015įantasy writer Terry Pratchett, best known for his work on Discworld and Good Omens, passed away after suffering from Alzheimer’s for eight years.īeloved fantasy and comedy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66, following an eight-year struggle with Alzheimer’s.
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