More Discworld?
From GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly) UK
Why we hope Terry Pratchett's Discworld can live on after his death
Terry Pratchett's dying wish that all his unfinished work would be destroyed has been carried out thanks to a steamroller and a hard drive. Is it possible another novelist may be allowed to pick up the master fantasy writer's mantle?
News that Sir Terry Pratchett’s long-term assistant Rob Wilkins had carried out the late author’s last wishes by using a six-and-a-half ton vintage steamroller to crush the hard drive containing his unfinished works - thought to include up to ten incomplete novels - brought up conflicting emotions. First, happiness that a great man’s dying wishes had been respected rather than ignored for grubby commercial reasons and, secondly, sadness that this looks like the final goodbye to Discworld, a place fans have enjoyed for 41 novels and more than 30 years. Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna has already announced that no further works or books of unfinished work would be authorised for publication.
But is it such a bad thing when new authors pick up the baton when well-loved novelists pass away? If it hadn’t been for JRR Tolkien's son Christopher editing his father’s notes and fragments of ideas we would never had had the posthumous work The Silmarillion - and arguably Peter Jackson would have struggled to stretch The Hobbit over three films.
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Why we hope Terry Pratchett's Discworld can live on after his death
Terry Pratchett's dying wish that all his unfinished work would be destroyed has been carried out thanks to a steamroller and a hard drive. Is it possible another novelist may be allowed to pick up the master fantasy writer's mantle?
News that Sir Terry Pratchett’s long-term assistant Rob Wilkins had carried out the late author’s last wishes by using a six-and-a-half ton vintage steamroller to crush the hard drive containing his unfinished works - thought to include up to ten incomplete novels - brought up conflicting emotions. First, happiness that a great man’s dying wishes had been respected rather than ignored for grubby commercial reasons and, secondly, sadness that this looks like the final goodbye to Discworld, a place fans have enjoyed for 41 novels and more than 30 years. Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna has already announced that no further works or books of unfinished work would be authorised for publication.
But is it such a bad thing when new authors pick up the baton when well-loved novelists pass away? If it hadn’t been for JRR Tolkien's son Christopher editing his father’s notes and fragments of ideas we would never had had the posthumous work The Silmarillion - and arguably Peter Jackson would have struggled to stretch The Hobbit over three films.
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