Re: AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER
A sequence of tweets from his account written by his daughter Rhianna just
after his death started with
"AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER."
then the second,
"Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the
black desert under the endless night."
The third tweet was a link to an obituary notice,
followed by the final tweet of his account, which simply read:
"The End."
He is best known for his Discworld
series of about 40 volumes. Pratchett's first novel,
The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld
novel, The Colour of Magic,
was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011
Discworld novel Snuff
was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback
adult-audience novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in
the first three days.
Pratchet
t, who has sold more than 85 million books worldwide in 37
languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s.
A hallmark of his writing was the use of capitalised dialogue without
quotation marks, used to indicate the character of Death communicating
telepathically into a character's mind. Other characters or types of characters were given
similarly distinctive ways of speaking, such as the auditors of reality
never having quotation marks, Ankh-Morpork
grocers never using punctuation correctly,
and golems capitalising each word in everything they say.
Pratchett also made up a new colour,
octarine,
a 'fluorescent greenish-yellow-purple', which is the eighth colour in the
Discworld spectrum, the colour of magic.
Indeed, the number eight itself is regarded in the Discworld as being a
magical number; for example, the eighth son of an eighth son will be a
wizard,
and his ei
ghth son will be a "sourcerer" (which is one reason why wizards
are not allowed to have children).
In the U. S., BookShare: has 117 of his books, some in Spanish.
BARD has 50 of his books.
Including "A Slip of the Keyboard"
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning
the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day.
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