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2. Yes. When asked about it by Charles Stross, Pratchett said he declined for Going Postal due to health reasons. He had angina and he considered the stress of the anticipation and the awards ceremony to be painful and dangerous. He also felt he was successful enough that he needn't risk his health for this recognition.
His health is no longer a going concern. And his daughter and co-author, Rhianna Pratchett, has said on twitter that she would welcome a Hugo nomination if people think it deserves it.
3. That's a fair concern, which I think is amelierorated by the fact that reading the entirety of all the novel-length works is, itself, a "novel" phenomenon, in the last few years. Previously, samples considered by the author/publisher to be representative were all you got unless you went out and bought the book yourself, and it wasn't expected that you'd necessarily buy all of them. I think including, say, Small Gods in the Hugo packet (as a representative sample) and providing a list of the rest would qualify.
For what it's worth, when I realised the Discworld as a whole was eligible, I thought it was *funny*, worth sharing, and wasn't seriously intending to nominate it as such. But it appears other people may be seriously intending to nominate it that way, and, well, I'm okay with that.
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