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That's Sir Pratchett to You.

Doublewhiskeycokenoice — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:41:31 -0800

Terry Pratchett , a man renowned for his staggering sales figures from his renowned Discworld series has been knighted.

Match it for Pratchett

joannemerriam — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:18:00 -0800

Match It For Pratchett is a campaign to match Terry Pratchett's donation of $1 million (half a million pounds) to the UK charity, the Alzheimer’s Research Trust. Since they started on March 15, they've raised over $34k. SF writer Jay Lake has organized a matching campaign to raise $2k at Norwescon. Several people are organizing charity auctions. And of course, there's a Facebook group, from which I've stolen this list of Alzheimer's charities: UK: http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/ US: http://www.alz.org/index.asp Canada: http://www.alzheimer.ca/english/help/intro.htm Alzheimer Europe: http://www.dementia-in-europe.eu/?lm2=XTDPPCTCMHWD Australia: http://www.alzheimers.org.au/ Australia: http://www.alzheimers.com.au/donate/ France: http://www.francealzheimer.com/

Hogfather

Wolfdog — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:43:44 -0800

Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, in 22 parts on YouTube. (Previously)

Terry Pratchett diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's

robocop is bleeding — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:05:32 -0800

Terry Pratchett diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. Turns out last month's stroke was a symptom of a greater illness. While there's still some time to go before we have to worry about Discworld substitutions, it has been a pretty tough year for fantasy authors. The instances of rare diseases showing up in otherwise healthy fantasy authors who should hopefully still have years and years of stories in them is distressing. If these things come in threes, who's next?

An unhappy muggle!

Nugget — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:29:27 -0800

Terry Pratchett isn't a happy muggle! In a letter to the Sunday Times, Pratchett's had a go at the media for 'the continued elevation of JK Rowling at the expense of other writers'. The letter appears to be in response to a Sunday Times article from last week (sorry, archived) and possibly this article in Time magazine.

I agree that JK has had significantly more press in the last few years than any other author. I'm a Pratchett fan, however, I suspect her success is down to a mix of good marketing and the simple truth that Harry Potter is (and don't shout at me), slightly less geeky and more accessible than the Discworld series. Although I wouldn't be too surprised if, eventually, the streets of Ankh Morpork are alive with “knights and ladies morris-dancing to Greensleeves"...