The biography will be published in September. Publisher Transworld said it would move from Pratchett being told at the age of six by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything, through the writing of the bestselling Discworld series, his winning the Carnegie medal and his knighthood for services to literature. Wilkins will also cover how Pratchett coped with the challenges of Alzheimer’s. According to Pratchett's assistant Rob Wilkins, Pratchett left "an awful lot" of unfinished writing, "10titles I know of and fragments from many other bits and pieces." [51] Pratchett had mentioned two new texts, Scouting for Trolls [52] and a Discworld novel following a new character. [53] The notes left behind outline ideas about "how the old folk of the Twilight Canyons solve the mystery of a missing treasure and defeat the rise of a Dark Lord despite their failing memories"; "the secret of the crystal cave and the carnivorous plants in the Dark Incontinent", about Constable Feeney of the Watch, first introduced in Snuff, involving how he "solves a whodunnit among the congenitally decent and honest goblins"; and a second book about Amazing Maurice from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. [54] Interview: Terry Pratchett". Alternative Nation. 10 October 2005. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008 . Retrieved 28 September 2011. Honorary Degrees awarded at Bristol University today". University of Bristol. 16 July 2004 . Retrieved 18 December 2008. Bookclub: BBC's James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Terry Pratchett about his book Mort ( audio)

Meditations on Middle-Earth, an anthology of essays on Middle Earth compiled by Karen Haber, contains Pratchett's essay "Cult Classic" (2002) Out of the shadows: Four videos in which Terry Pratchett reveals what it was like to be diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), a rare variant of Alzheimer's disease. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States.

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter – The Long War (The Long Earth 2) announced". Upcoming4.me. 15 January 2013. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013 . Retrieved 15 January 2013. That single gesture, it seemed to me, would send the clearest signal about the book that I was in a unique position to write, if I could manage it. Because, yes, of course I would want to write about Terry Pratchett the author, the public figure whom people knew. But I would also want, and even more urgently, to write about the Terry Pratchett who would be less familiar to people: the Terry Pratchett I saw every day, at his desk, without his hat on – Terry Pratchett the writer. He is often compared with PG Wodehouse but he’s closer to Swift. Or to GK Chesterton, from whom he drew so much inspiration. Like Chesterton, he is too bursting with ideas to confine himself to neat, prize-worthy volumes. He couldn’t even slow down enough to divide the books into chapters. And he has that Chestertonian quality of merriment, of intellectual play. Discworld, like Middle-earth, is immersive in a way that tempts people to dress up, draw street maps, tabulate its rules and pretend they live there. Even Pratchett himself, with his rings and his sword and his “manorette” of a house, sometimes gave the impression that he had just come down from the Ramtops. J. R. Hughes U6A, "The Senior Debating Society 1965", in Cygnet, Wycombe Technical High School Magazine, May 1966, Vol. 2, no. 1, p. [20].

Farokhmanesh, Megan (28 April 2015). "Dota 2 pays tribute to Terry Pratchett". Polygon . Retrieved 5 April 2023. A moving and acutely observed account . . . Pratchett's magical mind, and dementia, by the man who knew him best. The Sunday Times Wilkins has many advantages over most biographers, having not only known his subject well, but taken down notes while he was alive for his projected memoir. The result, at times, is like a ventriloquist act, with Pratchett's voice and personality emerging loud and clear. The Herald Boudreau, Ian (28 May 2018). "Terry Pratchett was an Oblivion modder". PCGamesN . Retrieved 31 January 2019.

Neil Gaiman

Aged nine or 10, his daughter Rhianna drew a picture of a hat and wrote underneath it: “I love my father but he is very busy.” A special celebration of the remarkable creative life of Sir Terry Pratchett, forty years after the publication of the first Discworld novel The Colour of Magic. Soon after the book was published, it inspired a young journalist Neil Gaiman to meet Terry, beginning a long collaborative friendship that was epitomised by their joint novel Good Omens, which appeared in 1990. The TV version of Good Omens was created by Neil Gaiman, with the first season on screen in 2019 and the second earlier this year Libertarian Futurist Society". Archived from the original on 28 June 2011 . Retrieved 18 February 2008. Why is he so underestimated? The world he created was brilliantly absurd – elephants all the way down – and strangely convincing. I remember arriving by car in Palermo, in Sicily, one day and one of my children saying “we’re on holiday in Ankh-Morpork”. Unlike any other fantasy world, Discworld constantly responds to our own. You’ve only got to look at the titles of the books ( Reaper Man, The Fifth Elephant) – parodies of films. Discworld is the laboratory where Pratchett carried out thought experiments on everything from social class and transport policy to the nature of time and death. Discworld, like Middle-earth, is immersive in a way that tempts people to dress up, draw street maps, tabulate its rules and pretend they live there

Pratchett, who was brought up in a Church of England family, [88] described himself as atheist [89] and a humanist. He was a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK (formerly known as the British Humanist Association) [90] and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. [91] In 2016, Pratchett fans petitioned the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to name chemical element 117, temporarily called ununseptium, as octarine with the proposed symbol Oc (pronounced "ook"). [82] The final name chosen for element 117 was tennessine with the symbol Ts. [83]a b Saunders, Tristram Fane (29 September 2022). "Terry Pratchett by Rob Wilkins review: the gloriously mundane magic of Discworld". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 11 October 2022. Wilkes, Neil (5 February 2009). " 'Minder' revival starts with 2.4m". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012 . Retrieved 14 February 2009. a b "An Embuggerance". Terry Pratchett, PJSMPrints.com. 11 December 2007 . Retrieved 1 February 2008. Hennessy, David (26 September 2012). "Only in Ireland would somebody make me a Professor". The Irish World. Archived from the original on 30 December 2019 . Retrieved 5 April 2019.

All four books have chapters that alternate between fiction and non-fiction: the fictional chapters are set within the Discworld universe, where characters observe, and experiment on, a universe with the same physics as ours. The non-fiction chapters (written by Stewart and Cohen) explain the science behind the fictional events. Look after the business and it will look after you. For all you have done, for all of the little things and all of the much bigger things and for the burying of the bodies … I thank you. Williams, Martin (2 February 2010). "A death worth dying for". The Herald. Archived from the original on 28 June 2010 . Retrieved 2 February 2010.Past Events". Dwcon.org. n.d. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007 . Retrieved 17 February 2008.