RIP Sir Terry Pratchett

[Jubal]

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."

[Flamekebab]

It seems we still have one book left to be released. It's going to be sad reading it :/

[Pentagathus]

[Glaurung]

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 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.

[HemingwayGames]

I love this quote:

"Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchett

[Jubal]

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/

[Flamekebab]

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*

[Jubal]

The simple fact that Bromeliads exist makes me happy. 

[Flamekebab]

Mipmip!

[Son of the King]

Incidentally, we transmit GNU Terry Pratchett in the headers of Exilian now.

Code Select Expand

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


[Jubal]

Excellent

Its been a bad few weeks for sci-fi, all round!