Terry Pratchett

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Comic fantasy
  • satire
  • science fiction
    • Notable works
    Notable awards
    Spouse
    Lyn Purves
    ​
    (m. 1968)​
    ChildrenRhianna
    Terry Pratchett's voice
    Recorded May 2008 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub
    Website
    terrypratchettbooks.com

    Sir Terence David John Pratchett

    fantasy novels set on the Discworld, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990) which he wrote with Neil Gaiman
    .

    Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.

    With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed

    World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
    in 2010.

    In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK, ARUK), filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron for ARUK. Pratchett died in March 2015, aged 66.

    Early life and education

    Pratchett was born on 28 April 1948 in

    speech impediments.[4] He was bothered by the head teacher, who, he said, thought "he could tell how successful you were going to be in later life by how well you could read or write at the age of six".[4]

    Pratchett's family moved to

    High Wycombe Technical High School,[a][6] where he was a key member of the debating society[7][8] and wrote stories for the school magazine.[7][9] Pratchett described himself as a "non-descript" student and,[10] in his Who's Who entry, credited his education to the Beaconsfield Public Library.[1][11]

    Pratchett's early interests included

    tea cards about space, owned a telescope and wanted to be an astronomer, but lacked the necessary mathematical skills.[5] He developed an interest in science fiction and attended science fiction conventions from about 1963–1964, but stopped a few years later when he got his first job as a trainee journalist at the local paper.[12] His early reading included the works of H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and "every book you really ought to read", which he later regarded as "getting an education".[13]

    Pratchett published his first short story, "Business Rivals", in the High Wycombe Technical School magazine in 1962. It is the tale of a man named Crucible who finds the Devil in his flat in a cloud of sulphurous smoke.[14] "The Hades Business" was published in the school magazine when he was 13, and published commercially when he was 15.[15]

    Pratchett earned five

    A-level courses in Art, English and History.[16] His initial career choice was journalism and he left school at 17, in 1965, to start an apprenticeship with Arthur Church, the editor of the Bucks Free Press. In this position he wrote, among other things, over 80 stories for the Children's Circle section under the name Uncle Jim. Two of the stories contain characters found in his novel The Carpet People (1971).[17] While on day release from his apprenticeship, Pratchett finished his A-Level in English and took the National Council for the Training of Journalists proficiency course.[7][18]

    Career

    In 1968, Pratchett interviewed Peter Bander van Duren, co-director of a small publishing company, Colin Smythe Ltd. Pratchett mentioned he had written a manuscript, The Carpet People.[19][20] Colin Smythe Ltd published the book in 1971, with illustrations by Pratchett.[21] It received strong, although few, reviews and was followed by the science fiction novels The Dark Side of the Sun (1976) and Strata (1981).[22] In the 1970s and 1980s, Pratchett published stories in a regional newspaper under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns.[23]

    After various positions in journalism, in 1979 Pratchett became Press Officer for the

    nuclear power stations.[b] He later joked that he had demonstrated "impeccable timing" by making this career change so soon after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, US, and said he would "write a book about his experiences if he thought anyone would actually believe them".[25][26]

    The first Discworld novel,

    New York Times bestseller list in 2005.[29]

    According to the Bookseller's Pocket Yearbook (2005), in 2003 Pratchett's UK sales amounted to 3.4% of the fiction market by hardback sales and 3.8% by value, putting him in second place behind J. K. Rowling (6% and 5.6%, respectively), while in the paperback sales list Pratchett came 5th with 1.2% and 1.3% by value (behind James Patterson (1.9% and 1.7%), Alexander McCall Smith, John Grisham, and J. R. R. Tolkien).[30] He has UK sales of more than 2.5 million copies a year.[31] His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff became the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.[32] As of 2023, Pratchett's works have sold more than 100 million copies in 43 languages.[33]

    Personal life

    Pratchett married Lyn Purves at the Congregational Church, Gerrards Cross, on 5 October 1968.[18] They moved to Rowberrow, Somerset, in 1970. Their daughter Rhianna Pratchett, also a writer, was born there in 1976. In 1993, the family moved to Broad Chalke, a village west of Salisbury, Wiltshire.[34]

    Pratchett was the patron of the Friends of High Wycombe Library.[35] In 2013, he gave a talk at Beaconsfield Library, which he had visited as a child, and donated the income from the event to it. He also visited his former school to speak to the students.[14]

    Pratchett often wore large, black hats, a style described as "more that of urban cowboy than city gent".[36] Concern for the future of civilisation prompted him to install five kilowatts of photovoltaic cells (for solar energy) at his house in 2007.[37]

    Computing

    Pratchett started to use computers for writing as soon as they were available to him. His first computer was a

    Sinclair ZX81; the first computer he used properly for writing was an Amstrad CPC 464, later replaced by a PC. Pratchett was one of the first authors to routinely use the Internet to communicate with fans, and was a contributor to the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett from 1992.[38] However, he did not consider the Internet a hobby, just another "thing to use".[26] He had many computers in his house,[26] with a bank of six monitors to ease writing.[39][40] When he travelled, he always took a portable computer, originally a 1992 Olivetti Quaderno,[41] with him to write.[26]

    In a 1995 interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Pratchett expressed concern about the potential spread of misinformation online. He felt that there was a "kind of parity of esteem of information" on the internet, and gave the example of holocaust denial being presented on the same terms as peer-reviewed research, with no easy way to gauge reliability. Gates disagreed, saying that online authorities would index and check facts and sources in a much more sophisticated way than in print. The interview was rediscovered in 2019, and seen by Pratchett's biographer as prescient of fake news.[42]

    Pratchett was an avid

    mods.[46]

    Natural history

    Pratchett had a fascination with natural history that he referred to many times, and he owned a greenhouse full of carnivorous plants.[47] He described them in the biographical notes on the dust jackets of some of his books, and elsewhere,[48] as "not as interesting as people think".[49] By Carpe Jugulum the account had become that "he used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in."[50]

    In 1995, a

    Psephophorus terrypratchetti in his honour by the palaeontologist Richard Köhler.[51]

    In 2016, Pratchett fans petitioned the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to name chemical element 117, temporarily called ununseptium, as octarine with the proposed symbol Oc (pronounced "ook").[52] The final name chosen for element 117 was tennessine with the symbol Ts.[53]

    Pratchett was a trustee for the Orangutan Foundation

    the Librarian
    , is a wizard who was transformed into an orangutan in a magical accident and decides to remain in that condition as it is so convenient for his work.

    Amateur astronomy

    Pratchett had an observatory built in his back garden[12] and was a keen astronomer from childhood.[5] He made a 2005 appearance on the BBC programme The Sky at Night.[57]

    Views on religion

    Pratchett, who was brought up in a Church of England family,[58] described himself as atheist[59] and a humanist. He was a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK (formerly known as the British Humanist Association)[60] and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.[61]

    Pratchett wrote that he read the Old Testament as a child and "was horrified", but liked the New Testament and thought that Jesus "had a lot of good things to say ... But I could never see the two testaments as one coherent narrative."[58] He then read On the Origin of Species, which "all made perfect sense ... Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account."[58] He said he had never disliked religion and thought it had a purpose in human evolution.[58] In his novel Nation, the protagonist says "It is better to build a seismograph than to worship the volcano", a statement Pratchett said he agreed with.[58]

    Pratchett told the Times in 2008: "I believe in the same God that Einstein did ... And it is just possible that once you have got past all the gods that we have created with big beards and many human traits, just beyond all that on the other side of physics, there just may be the ordered structure from which everything flows."[59] In an interview on Front Row, he described an experience hearing his deceased father's voice and feeling a sense of peace.[62] Commentators took these statements to mean Pratchett had become religious; Pratchett responded in an article published in the Daily Mail in which he denied that he had found God, and clarified that he believed the voice had come from a memory of his father and sense of personal elation.[58]

    Alzheimer's disease

    In August 2007, Pratchett was misdiagnosed as having had a minor stroke a few years before, which doctors believed had damaged the right side of his brain.[36][63][64] In December 2007, he announced that he had been newly diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which had been responsible for the "stroke".[64][65] He had a rare form of posterior cortical atrophy (PCA),[36][63] a disease in which areas at the back of the brain begin to shrink and shrivel.[66]

    Describing the diagnosis as an "embuggerance" in a radio interview, Pratchett appealed to people to "keep things cheerful" and proclaimed that "we are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism."[67] He stated he felt he had time for "at least a few more books yet", and added that while he understood the impulse to ask "is there anything I can do?", in this case he would only entertain such offers from "very high-end experts in brain chemistry."[67] Discussing his diagnosis at the Bath Literature Festival in early 2008, Pratchett revealed that by then he found it too difficult to write dedications when signing books.[68] In his later years, Pratchett wrote by dictating to his assistant, Rob Wilkins, or by using speech recognition software.[69]

    Worldcon 2005
    in Glasgow, August 2005

    In March 2008, Pratchett announced he would donate $1 million (about £494,000) to the

    Alzheimer's Research Trust (later called Alzheimer's Research UK), and that he was shocked "to find out that funding for Alzheimer's research is just 3% of that to find cancer cures."[66][70][71] He said: "I am, along with many others, scrabbling to stay ahead long enough to be there when the cure comes along."[66]

    In April 2008, Pratchett worked with the

    BAFTA award in the Factual Series category.[75]

    On 26 November 2008, Pratchett met UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and asked for an increase in dementia research funding.[76] Pratchett tested a prototype device to address his condition.[77][78] The ability of the device to alter the course of the illness has been met with skepticism from Alzheimer's researchers.[79]

    In an article published 2009, Pratchett stated that he wished to die by

    Scottish BAFTAs in November 2011.[85]

    In September 2012, Pratchett told an interviewer: "I have to tell you that I thought I'd be a lot worse than this by now, and so did my specialist." In the same interview, he said that the cognitive part of his mind was "untouched" and his symptoms were physical (normal for PCA).[86] However, in July 2014, he cancelled his appearance at the biennial International Discworld Convention, citing his condition and "other age-related ailments".[87]

    Death and legacy

    Pratchett died at his home from complications of Alzheimer's disease on the morning of 12 March 2015. He was 66 years old.[88][89] The Telegraph reported an unidentified source as saying that despite his previous discussion of assisted suicide, his death had been natural.[90] After Pratchett's death, his assistant, Rob Wilkins, wrote from the official Terry Pratchett Twitter account:

    AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

    Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.

    The End.[91]

    Public figures who paid tribute include British Prime Minister

    humanist funeral service was held on 25 March 2015.[100]

    In 2015, Pratchett's estate announced an in-perpetuity endowment to the University of South Australia.[101] The Sir Terry Pratchett Memorial Scholarship supports a Masters scholarship at the university's Hawke Research Institute.[102]

    In 2023, a series of stories published in a regional newspaper in the 1970s and 80s under the pen name Patrick Kearns were discovered to have been authored by Pratchett. They were published as A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories in October 2023.[23]

    Awards and honours

    Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Terry Pratchett
    Pratchett drinking Irish stout shortly after receiving an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin, in 2008

    Pratchett received a

    Ansible science fiction/fan newsletter, "I suspect the 'services to literature' consisted of refraining from trying to write any," but added, "Still, I cannot help feeling mightily chuffed about it."[107] On 31 December 2008, it was announced that Pratchett would be knighted (as a Knight Bachelor) in the Queen's 2009 New Year Honours.[103][108] Afterwards he said, "You can't ask a fantasy writer not to want a knighthood. You know, for two pins I'd get myself a horse and a sword."[109] In 2010 Pratchett created his own sword from deposits of iron he had found in a field near his home as he believed a knight should have a sword.[110]

    Ten honorary doctorates were conferred on Pratchett: from

    Bradford University in 2009,[117] University of Winchester in 2009,[118][119] The Open University in 2013[120] for his contribution to Public Service and his last, from the University of South Australia, in May 2014.[121]
    Pratchett was made an
    adjunct Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin in 2010, with a role in postgraduate education in creative writing and popular literature.[122][123]

    Pratchett won the

    Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) as a part of the Nebula Award
    ceremony.

    In 2016 the SFWA named Pratchett the recipient of

    Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, a lifetime honour for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature".[139][140] The librarians cited nine Discworld novels published from 1983 to 2004 and observed that "Pratchett's tales of Discworld have won over generations of teen readers with intelligence, heart, and undeniable wit. Comic adventures that fondly mock the fantasy genre, the Discworld novels expose the hypocrisies of contemporary society in an intricate, ever-expanding universe. With satisfyingly multilayered plots, Pratchett's humor honors the intelligence of the reader. Teens eagerly lose themselves in a universe with no maps."[139] In 2003, BBC conducted The Big Read to identify the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" and finally published a ranked list of the "Top 200". Pratchett's highest-ranking novel was Mort, number 65, but he and Charles Dickens were the only authors with five in the Top 100 (four of his were from the Discworld series). He also led all authors with fifteen novels in the Top 200.[141]

    An asteroid (

    British Humanist Association for his campaign to fund research into Alzheimers, his contribution to the right to die public debate and his Humanist values.[143]
    Pratchett's Discworld novels have led to dedicated conventions, the first in Manchester in 1996,[144] then worldwide,[145] often with the author as guest of honour.[146] Publication of a new novel was sometimes accompanied by an international book signing tour;[147] queues were known to stretch outside the bookshop as the author continued to sign books well after the intended finishing time.[144] His fans were not restricted by age or gender, and he received a large amount of fan mail from them.[144] Pratchett enjoyed meeting fans and hearing what they think about his books, saying that since he was well paid for his novels, his fans were "everything" to him.[148]

    In March 2017 Beaconsfield Town Council commissioned a commemorative plaque dedicated to Pratchett for Beaconsfield Library.[149][150]

    Writing

    Pratchett said that to write, you must read extensively, both inside and outside your chosen genre[151] and to the point of "overflow".[26] He advised that writing is hard work, and that writers must "make grammar, punctuation and spelling a part of your life."[26] However, Pratchett enjoyed writing, regarding its monetary rewards as "an unavoidable consequence" rather than the reason for writing.[152]

    Fantasy genre

    Although during his early career he wrote for the sci-fi and horror genres, Pratchett later focused almost entirely on fantasy, and said: "It is easier to bend the universe around the story."[153] In the acceptance speech for his Carnegie Medal, he said: "Fantasy isn't just about wizards and silly wands. It's about seeing the world from new directions", pointing to the Harry Potter novels and The Lord of the Rings. In the same speech, he acknowledged benefits of these works for the genre.[154]

    Pratchett believed he owed "a debt to the science fiction/fantasy genre which he grew up out of" and disliked the term "

    magical realism" which, he said, is "like a polite way of saying you write fantasy and is more acceptable to certain people".[155] He expressed annoyance that fantasy is "unregarded as a literary form", arguing that it "is the oldest form of fiction";[148] he said he was infuriated when novels containing science fiction or fantasy ideas were not regarded as part of those genres.[151] He debated this issue with novelist A. S. Byatt and critic Terry Eagleton, arguing that fantasy is fundamental to the way we understand the world and therefore an integral aspect of all fiction.[156]

    Style and themes

    Pratchett's earliest Discworld novels were written largely to parody classic sword-and-sorcery fiction (and occasionally science fiction);[157] as the series progressed, Pratchett dispensed with parody almost entirely, and the Discworld series evolved into straightforward (though still comedic) satire.[158]

    Pratchett had a tendency to avoid using chapters, arguing in a Book Sense interview that "life does not happen in regular chapters, nor do movies, and Homer did not write in chapters", adding "I'm blessed if I know what function they serve in books for adults".[159] However, there were exceptions; Going Postal and Making Money and several of his books for younger readers are divided into chapters.[160] Pratchett said that he used chapters in the young adult novels because "[his] editor screams until [he] does", but otherwise felt that they were an unnecessary "stopping point" that got in the way of the narrative.[citation needed]

    Characters, place names, and titles in Pratchett's books often contain puns, allusions and cultural references.

    Cohen the Barbarian, also called Ghengiz Cohen, is a parody of Conan the Barbarian and Genghis Khan, and his character Leonard of Quirm is a parody of Leonardo da Vinci.[163][164]

    Another feature of his writing was the use of dialogue in small capitals, without quotation marks, for utterances of the character of Death.

    Pratchett was an only child, and his characters are often without siblings. Pratchett explained, "In fiction, only-children are the interesting ones."[165]

    Discworld novels often included a modern innovation and its introduction to the world's

    semaphore system that sprang up in later novels, is a mechanical optical telegraph (as created by the Chappe brothers and employed during the French Revolution
    ) before wired electric telegraph chains, with all the change and turmoil that such an advancement implies. The resulting social upheaval driven by these changes serves as the setting for the main story.

    Influences

    Pratchett's earliest inspirations were

    P.G. Wodehouse, Tom Sharpe, Jerome K. Jerome, Roy Lewis,[168] Alan Coren,[169] G. K. Chesterton, and Mark Twain.[170]

    Works

    Discworld

    Pratchett began writing the Discworld series in order to "have fun with some of the cliches"

    Great A'Tuin as it swims its way through space. The books are essentially in chronological order,[160] and advancements can be seen in the development of the Discworld civilisations, such as the creation of paper money in Ankh-Morpork.[159]

    Main article: Discworld

    The Science of Discworld

    Pratchett wrote four Science of Discworld books in collaboration with Professor of mathematics Ian Stewart and reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, both of the University of Warwick: The Science of Discworld (1999), The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002), The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005), and The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (2013).

    All four books have chapters that alternate between fiction and non-fiction: the fictional chapters are set within the

    characters
    observe, and experiment on, a universe with the same physics as ours. The non-fiction chapters (written by Stewart and Cohen) explain the science behind the fictional events.

    In 1999, Pratchett appointed both Cohen and Stewart as "Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University" at the same ceremony at which the University of Warwick awarded him an honorary degree.[111]

    Folklore of Discworld

    Pratchett collaborated with the folklorist Dr

    The Folklore of Discworld
     (2008), a study of the relationship between many of the persons, places and events described in the Discworld books and their counterparts in myths, legends, fairy tales and folk customs on Earth.

    Other writing

    Pratchett's first two adult novels, The Dark Side of the Sun (1976) and Strata (1981), were both science fiction, the latter taking place partly on a disc-shaped world. Subsequent to these, Pratchett mostly concentrated on his Discworld series and novels for children, with two exceptions: Good Omens (1990), a collaboration with Neil Gaiman (which was nominated for both Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1991[171]), a humorous story about the Apocalypse set on Earth, and Nation (2008), a book for young adults.

    After writing Good Omens, Pratchett brainstormed with Larry Niven on a story that would become the short novel "Rainbow Mars". Niven eventually completed the story on his own, but states in the afterword that a number of Pratchett's ideas remained in the finished version.

    Pratchett also collaborated with British science fiction author Stephen Baxter on a parallel earth series.[172] The first novel, entitled The Long Earth was released on 21 June 2012. A second novel, The Long War, was released on 18 June 2013.[173] The Long Mars was published in 2014. The fourth book in the series, The Long Utopia, was published in June 2015, and the fifth, The Long Cosmos, in June 2016.

    In 2012, the first volume of Pratchett's collected short fiction was published under the title A Blink of the Screen. In 2014, a similar collection was published of Pratchett's non-fiction, entitled A Slip of the Keyboard.[174]

    Pratchett wrote dialogue for a mod for the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), which added a Nord companion named Vilja. He also worked on a similar mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011), which featured Vilja's great-great-granddaughter.[175][176]

    Children's literature

    Pratchett's first children's novel was also his first published novel: The Carpet People in 1971, which Pratchett substantially rewrote and re-released in 1992. The next, Truckers (1988), was the first in The Nome Trilogy of novels for young readers (also known as The Bromeliad Trilogy), about small gnome-like creatures called "Nomes", and the trilogy continued in Diggers (1990) and Wings (1990). Subsequently, Pratchett wrote the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, about the adventures of a boy called Johnny Maxwell and his friends, comprising Only You Can Save Mankind (1992), Johnny and the Dead (1993) and Johnny and the Bomb (1996). Nation (2008) marked his return to the non-Discworld children's novel, and this was followed in 2012 by Dodger, a children's novel set in Victorian London.[177] On 21 November 2013 Doubleday Children's released Pratchett's Jack Dodger's Guide to London.[178]

    Pratchett also wrote a popular five-book children's series featuring trainee witch Tiffany Aching and taking place in his Discworld universe, beginning with The Wee Free Men in 2003.

    In September 2014 a collection of children's stories, Dragons at Crumbling Castle, written by Pratchett, and illustrated by Mark Beech, was published.[179] This was followed by another collection, The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner, also illustrated by Mark Beech, in 2016. A third volume, Father Christmas's Fake Beard, was released in 2017. A fourth collection, The Time-travelling Caveman, was released in September 2020.[179] A final collection, A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories, was published in October 2023, collecting 20 stories written by Pratchett for newspapers in the 1970s and 80s under pseudonyms such as "Patrick Kearns" which had not previously been attributed to Pratchett.[180]

    Collaborations

    Unfinished texts

    Pratchett's daughter, the writer Rhianna Pratchett, is the custodian of the Discworld franchise. She said she had no plans to publish her father's unfinished work or continue the Discworld series.[184] Pratchett told Neil Gaiman that anything that he had been working on at the time of his death should be destroyed by a steamroller. On 25 August 2017, his assistant Rob Wilkins fulfilled this wish by crushing Pratchett's hard drive under a steamroller at the Great Dorset Steam Fair.[185]

    According to Wilkins, Pratchett left "an awful lot" of unfinished writing, "10 titles I know of and fragments from many other bits and pieces."[186] Pratchett had mentioned two new texts, Scouting for Trolls[187] and a Discworld novel following a new character.[188] The notes left behind outline ideas about "how the old folk of the Twilight Canyons solve the mystery of a missing treasure and defeat the rise of a Dark Lord despite their failing memories"; "the secret of the crystal cave and the carnivorous plants in the Dark Incontinent", about Constable Feeney of the Watch, first introduced in Snuff, involving how he "solves a whodunnit among the congenitally decent and honest goblins"; and a second book about Amazing Maurice from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.[189]

    Television

    Works about Pratchett

    A collection of essays about Pratchett's writings is compiled in the book Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature, edited by

    Heinemann Library
    in 2006.

    A BBC docudrama based on Pratchett's life, Terry Pratchett: Back In Black, was broadcast in February 2017, starring Paul Kaye as Pratchett. Neil Gaiman was involved with the project which used Pratchett's own words. Pratchett's assistant, Rob Wilkins, said that Pratchett was working on this documentary before he died. According to the BBC, finishing it would "show the author was still having the last laugh".[192]

    The English author, critic and performer Marc Burrows wrote an unofficial biography, The Magic of Terry Pratchett, published by Pen & Sword on 6 July 2020.[193] Though it was not endorsed by the Pratchett estate, prior to its publication they did wish Burrows "all the best" regarding the book through the official Pratchett Twitter account.[194] It received generally favourable reviews and won the 2021 Locus Award for Non-Fiction.[195]

    In 2022, Wilkins wrote an official biography, Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes.[196] The biography was well-received.[c] In The Daily Telegraph, Tristram Fane Saunders wrote that it "spins magic from mundanity in precisely the way Pratchett himself did".[197] However, in a review for the Irish Independent, Kevin Power called it more a collection of fan notes than a serious biography.[200]

    An April 2023 episode of Imaginary Worlds, titled 'Entering Discworld Population' was released to honor the 75th anniversary of Pratchett's birth.[201] It discussed four of Pratchett's recurring fiction characters as representative of his underlying philosophy.

    Arms

    Coat of arms of Terry Pratchett
    Notes
    Terry Pratchett's arms were designed by
    Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms dated 28 April 2010.[202]
    Crest
    Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Sable on Water Barry wavy Sable Argent and Sable an Owl affronty wings displayed and inverted Or supporting thereby two closed Books erect Gules.[203]
    Escutcheon
    Sable an ankh between four Roundels in saltire each issuing Argent.[203]
    Motto
    Noli Timere Messorem (Don't fear the reaper)[202]
    Symbolism
    The owl is a morepork, which taken together with the ankh is a clear reference to the city of Ankh-Morpork. The image of a morpork holding an ankh appears in the fictional Ankh-Morpork City Arms. The motto "Noli Timere Messorem" is a corrected version of the dog Latin "Non Timetis Messor", the motto of Death's son-in-law and former apprentice, Mort of Sto Helit[204] and his heirs. The phrase is a reference to the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult.[205]

    Notes

    1. ^ Pratchett gave his eleven plus exam in 1958 according to biographer Marc Burrows,[5] and in 1959 according to Craig Cabell.[1]
    2. ^ Burrows states that Pratchett joined the CEGB in 1979 and oversaw three nuclear stations,[24] but according to Cabell, he started work in 1980 and the number of stations may have been either three or four.[25]
    3. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[197][198][199]

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    7. ^ a b c Burrows 2020, chpt. 3.
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    9. ^ Stories in the Technical Cygnet: "Business Rivals" (later to be revised and published under the title "The Hades Business"), 1: 8, December 1962, pp. 18–29; "Look for the Little – Dragon?" and "The Searcher" 1: 9, March 1964, pp. 28–29; "Solution" 1: 10, July 1964, p. 25; and "The Picture" 1:11, May 1965, p. 12.
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