I wish I knew the creators of some of these so I could credit them properly: they are appearing all over the place without attribution, which niggles at my librarianly side, but:

Terry and Death at the door

Sir Terry and Death play chess

There was a gorgeous one I saw earlier today too of Terry and Death walking out into the desert together, but ( Read more... )

This wonderful tribute to Pterry, by sundayswiththeilluminati on Tumblr, via vulgarweed via marta_bee:

Sir Terry Pratchett awakens. A skeleton stands at his bedside, wearing a long black robe. He sits up. “Well, hang on, let me get my hat,” he tells it.

The skeleton reaches into its robe. From abyssal depths it produces a heavy book bound in sheets of lead and night ( Read more... )

So very, very sad, no less so because we'd known for a long time it was coming; one of my favourite authors for readers of all ages, a wonderful, wise, witty and humane man, and in recent years a brave and stalwart campaigner to raise both awareness and research funding for Alzheimer's Disease:

This news."It is with immeasurable sadness that we ( Read more... )

Somebody shared this pic on my Facebook wall yesterday, and as a long-time fan of Terry Pratchett (both as an author and as a wonderful, wise and humane human being) I wanted to pass it on as I thought it might raise a chuckle or two ( Read more... )