http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156
Don't really have any words for this. Except one, I guess, which - though silly of me - a part of me would like to think he's hearing, somewhere.
"HELLO."
It seems we still have one book left to be released. It's going to be sad reading it :/
:(
Very sad news, but inevitable, and perhaps not unexpected, given his health.
As one small tribute, I remembered something that Neil Gaiman said, in this article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30512620) about the writing of their joint work, Good Omens. Gaiman had written a 5000-word draft; Pratchett read it and phoned Gaiman, offering to buy it, or to write it together.
"Write it together," I said, ... because that was the nearest I was ever going to get to Michaelangelo phoning to ask if I wanted to paint a ceiling with him.
I love this quote:
"Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is full of great quotables.
XKCD has gone with an excellent quote from his Bromeliad trilogy, which is a wonderful set of books.
http://xkcd.com/1498/
I re-read that series a few months ago and it's as fantastic today as it was when I was a child. *glowy feelings*
The simple fact that Bromeliads exist makes me happy. :)
(http://www.joshsfrogs.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/t/h/thumb_using_exo_terra_bromeliad_for_sale_2.jpg)
Mipmip!
Incidentally, we transmit GNU Terry Pratchett (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31907768) in the headers of Exilian now.
adam@venarta:~/morph$ curl -I http://www.exilian.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:20:39 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: private
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=euefr48i5lg99j3p64kl2vqt16; path=/
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
Content-Type: text/html
Excellent :)
Its been a bad few weeks for sci-fi, all round!