His daughter willcontinue on with Discworld novels after he passes.
Also, he had a heart attack in New York last month and nearly died.
I started reading the Discworld novels back in 2011 and I’m currently reading the latest book in the series, Snuff. I’ve enjoyed the series quite thoroughly (I haven’t read any of the YA books) and as I began to read Snuff I was was saddened by the knowledge that this might very well be the final Discworld novel to be published. And as sad as it makes me feel I’d be okay with this being the last novel published. Everything comes to an end. And I think it’s better to end when you’re on top of things rather than having a period of decline.
I am of mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it means the Disc goes on. On the other hand, it won’t be Pterry writing. On the gripping hand, it won’t be Pterry writing (I’ve found the last few books tedious and uninteresting at best.)
We shall see. I wonder what the casting news is.
The books all have “Terry Pratchett” on the cover, but the cataloging information pretty much always credits them to “Terry and Lyn Pratchett”.
I will agree with this for the most part. As long as this is not the Herbertization of the Discworld, I’m going to give it a chance.
As far as the casting news, I’ve been looking around and haven’t heard anything yet. Does anyone know when this series will debut?
That’s a copyright ownership matter, though. It doesn’t have any direct bearing on the authorship.
Odesio, you’re in luck - you still have the Tiffany Aching series to look forward to. Don’t be put off by the YA label - they’re some of the best writing Sir Pterry has done.
The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents is good, too.
The Tiffany Aching books are actually the best Pterry books I’ve read in the last few years. They’re funny and interesting and could easily sit among the regular novels rather than in the YA section. Don’t miss out.
Only You Can Save Mankind is pretty good, too, though I don’t know how the video game aspects hold up these days.
Totally! “Rough Music”, chapter 2 of I Shall Wear Midnight, is the single best thing he’s ever written.
The record of children carrying on their parents literary works isn’t particularly great. But I guess you never know.
You know what I hope? It’s kind of morbid, but I hope that Pratchett has already written death scenes for most of his major characters, that could be collected into a set of vignettes. Pratchett’s Death is just so compassionate and, well, decent, that his death scenes almost aren’t even sad. And I’d love to see how, say, Granny Weatherwax would finally go into that long goodnight, or Carrot, or Rincewind.
She seems to have inherited his skill and humor, so this is good news.
Damn, this sucks. If there was a just God, people of PTerry’s talent would live forever.
Damn
Indeed, she surely can’t do as badly as Brian Herbert for example.
Agreed several times over.
I’ve always been amazed how much his writing “grew up” when he started writing for kids.
I’m amazed at people who say they don’t like the Tiffany Aching books. These people should just suck it up and read them - they are far too good to ignore. I’ve been trying to get my wife to read Terry, and I fear should will insist on reading them “in order” and be unimpressed by The Color of Magic and not get caught up in his work. I would suggest that she start with the three Tiffany books, which have everything I love about his work, but stand alone much better than any of the other Discworld books.
Pretty sure Pterry would disagree with that last sentence from just about every angle, and he’s been dead against people praying for him.
I like all three Johnny Maxwell books. And the Nomes trilogy (aka The Bromeliad, aka Truckers, Diggers, and Wings).
Looking at the linked article, it’s not clear to me that Rhianna Pratchett actually intends to continue writing the Discworld novels. It says she’ll be co-writer of the upcoming BBC series based on the Discworld books and that PTerry would be happy for her to continue writing the books when he is no longer able to do so.