# Terry Pratchett dead at 66. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835 "2015-03-12T15:12:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/81 "2015-03-12T18:58:41Z")
From what I understand, he’s set his daughter up to continue writing \*Discworld \*novels. Hopefully they’ll be good. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/82 "2015-03-12T19:01:33Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Whatever you do, do not skip his young adult books. The Tiffany Aching books are some of his finest writing, particularly _I Shall Wear Midnight_. They are “young adult” only in their themes. I heartily agree. Those books hit me particularly hard. The only author I can think of off the time of my head that continued to get stronger and better with every book. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/83 "2015-03-12T19:03:52Z")
If _The Shepherd’s Crown_ is to be published in September, then it has already been delivered to the publisher. As for more Discworld from Rhianna…don’t count on it. She has repeatedly stated that she will **not** continue the books, but will only deal with spin-offs, games and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/84 "2015-03-12T19:09:34Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > The BBC news site link > > [Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66 - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156) > > TCMF-2L An ad for a BBC program on the right of that page has the head of a turtle. How appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/85 "2015-03-12T19:12:24Z")
Damn. Goodbye, Sir Terry. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/86 "2015-03-12T19:40:25Z")
> [@](#): > > So what shall I make of the voice that spoke to me recently as I was scuttling around getting ready for yet another spell on a chat-show sofa? > > More accurately, it was a memory of a voice in my head, and it told me that everything was OK and things were happening as they should. For a moment, the world had felt at peace. Where did it come from? > > Me, actually — the part of all of us that, in my case, caused me to stand in awe the first time I heard Thomas Tallis’s _Spem in alium,_ and the elation I felt on a walk one day last February, when the light of the setting sun turned a ploughed field into shocking pink; I believe it’s what Abraham felt on the mountain and Einstein did when it turned out that E=mc2. > > It’s that moment, that brief epiphany when the universe opens up and shows us something, and in that instant we get just a sense of an order greater than Heaven and, as yet at least, beyond the grasp of Stephen Hawking. It doesn’t require worship, but, I think, rewards intelligence, observation and enquiring minds. > > I don’t think I’ve found God, but I may have seen where gods come from. – [Sir Terry Pratchett](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/87 "2015-03-12T19:48:13Z")
> [@Helena](#): > > YES. AND I BROUGHT THE SWORD. CEREMONY DICTATES IT. Fitting. “KINGS GET THE SWORD. IT’S A ROYAL WOSSNAME, PREROGATIVE.” – _Mort_ ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/88 "2015-03-12T19:55:12Z")
Well, **fuck**. And it had been such a good day so far, too :/. Hopefully Death will escort him where he believes he deserves to go - probably a warm and cozy place with lots of fizzy drinks with umbrellas in 'em, albeit also chock full of ill-tempered cats. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/89 "2015-03-12T19:57:59Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Well, **fuck**. And it had been such a good day so far, too :/. > Hopefully Death will escort him where he believes he deserves to go - probably a warm and cozy place with lots of fizzy drinks with umbrellas in 'em, albeit also chock full of ill-tempered cats. I hope so, and that he does not end up right back in this world saying to himself, “This is --ing good wood!” ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/90 "2015-03-12T20:04:50Z")
I’m in the middle of _Jingo_ right now. Last night my wife asked me what I was reading. My answer, “It’s by that English guy I like, about that city, it’s fiction. Remember I told my Dad to start reading them? It’s funny…I’m not adequately explaining this at all.” Thankfully, Mr. Pratchett was much better with words than I am. I’m deeply saddened. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/91 "2015-03-12T20:06:49Z")
Very sad indeed, I can’t think of an author whose work has given me more hours of pleasure. Thanks Sir Terry. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/92 "2015-03-12T20:21:36Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Celebrity deaths don’t usually bother me. This morning, though- I’m in tears. Same here. I wouldn’t have expected to be hit by the news like this, but…damn. > [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > [Neil Gaiman:] “My apologies to all news outlets, tv stations, everyone asking for statements about Terry’s death. I don’t think I can say anything today.” > > “He was my friend for thirty years and a month. I miss him. Donate to Alzheimer’s research and make it so things like this don’t happen.” For a certainty. And those of us living in the U.S. can write our Congresscritters and demand that Alzheimer’s research get as much funding as can be put to good use. From what I’ve been reading lately, there are several promising lines of research, but the funding is far from adequate to pursue them expeditiously. In 15 years, when the first Baby Boomers start reaching their mid-80s, this is gonna hit us like a tidal wave. We will have way more Alzheimer’s patients than we have now, unless we figure out some way to cure or ameliorate it, or at least postpone its effects. They should be attacking this the way they went after the Y2K bug in the 1990s. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/93 "2015-03-12T20:23:05Z")
Terry’s name is going up and down the Clacks, from tower to tower. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/94 "2015-03-12T20:28:50Z")
Crappity crap crap CRAP! I’ve been saving Raising Steam for my vacation in two weeks, largely because I suspected there wouldn’t be much else likely to come along. Nothing about that makes this any less upsetting. RIP, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/95 "2015-03-12T20:33:06Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never read any of his books. To the Kindle store, Robin! Good thinking. I rather envy you as you get to read them all for the first time. Here’s a link to the most current reading guide I could find. You might find it useful. [Discworld Reading Order Guide 2.2](http://imgur.com/qHa8Zf5) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/96 "2015-03-12T20:39:42Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/97 "2015-03-12T20:56:41Z")
I’m weeping buckets for some reason. I do hope there will be at least one more book, but then after that there will be no more. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/98 "2015-03-12T21:01:07Z")
Was it ever confirmed that he used to lurk here? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/99 "2015-03-12T21:04:04Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > From what I understand, he’s set his daughter up to continue writing \*Discworld \*novels. God, I hope not. We don’t need another Brian Herbert out there. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835/100 "2015-03-12T21:06:01Z")
_The Shepherd’s Crown_ is due to be released June 23rd. It’s the last novel, and a Tiffany Aching one. yeah, this wrecked my whole day too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terry-pratchett-dead-at-66/714835.md?page=6)