Terry Pratchett passes away at 66

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That's two of my favourite writers, that has passed in my life time. Terry and Michael Crichton (2009).
 
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He was the master of the footnote. I knew we had a keeper with this one.

To everyone without such a logical frame of reference the fastest animal** on the Disc is the extremely neurotic Ambiguous Puzuma, which moves so fast that it can actually achieve near light-speed in the Disc's magical field. This means that if you can see a puzuma, it isn't there. Most male puzumas die young of acute ankle failure caused by running very fast after females which aren't there and, of course, achieving suicidal mass in accordance with relativistic theory. The rest of them die of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, since it is impossible for them to know who they are and where they are at the same time, and the see-sawing loss of concentration this engenders means that the puzuma only achieves a sense of identity when it is at rest — usually about fifty feet into the rubble of what remains of the mountain it just ran into at near light-speed. The puzuma is rumoured to be about the size of a leopard with a rather unique black and white check coat, although those specimens discovered by the Disc's sages and philosophers have inclined them to declare that in its natural state the puzuma is flat, very thin, and dead.

** The fastest insect is the .303 bookworm. It evolved in magical libraries, where it is necessary to eat extremely quickly to avoid being affected by the thaumic radiations. An adult .303 bookworm can eat through a shelf of books so fast that it ricochets off the wall.
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Very sad news, he was truly one of the best. His collection is probably one of my favorites, and one of the earliest I started with. He had a unique take on the world, and it showed in all his books.
 
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I'll also admit, I was really teary when I read some of the comments on the site.

Rincewind in Sorcery was some of the first wizard novels that I read. I instantly liked him and the style. Years after I would read the same books and start picking up some of the pop cultural references.

Brandon Sanderson wrote a great post on him: http://brandonsanderson.com/goodbye-sir-terry/

And then somebody sent me this and I completely choked up.

"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence." – Reaper Man
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his death saddens me in ways I cannot explain to most people in the office.

Due to really bad eyesight I get migraines when reading. because of this my SO has been reading to me every night while I play games.

I have read, Going Postal, Making Money and Soul Music myself.
My beloved has read my all the Sam vimes novels.
We just started on tiffany Aking series, on book 2 now.

we have also read Good Omens. that is right up there. such a pitty TP and Geiman will never work together again :(
 
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I own and have read every one of his books a good few times over. My favorite author ever.
He held the mirror up to the good and the shi77y parts of this world, and poured wit, sarcasm and dry humour all over it all.

You will be missed you literary genius.
 
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LazyLion said:
Awesome to see the Terry Pratchett community so alive and well in South Africa....

www.pfangirl.com

Discworld Day 2022 – An Ankh-Morpork adventure in South Africa

This past Saturday, 5 November, marked the return of South Africa’s Discworld Day, a fan celebration of all things relating to the beloved fantasy universe created by the late great author Te…
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I had no idea this was even a thing!

Been reading Discworld for over 20 years. Love it to bits.
 
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I would have loved to attend. Diskworld is one of the things that shaped my view of the world.
 
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Mars said:
I would have loved to attend. Diskworld is one of the things that shaped my view of the world.
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I.e, that it's magical, shaped like a disc, perched on the backs of four giant elephants, who are themselves standing in the shell of a giant turtle swimming through space?
 
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Unfortunately Terry couldn't be necro'd like this damn SEVEN year old thread.
 
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