March 12, 2015 at 2:06 pm
I know there's lots of SF/F readers here, I thought I should post the grim news.
He passed in his sleep at age 66 of a peculiar form of Alzheimer's. I had the privilege and honor of meeting him at a Tempe Discworld convention and getting his scribbled signature in a limited edition hardback of Good Omens. I think I have all of the fiction that he ever published and a goodly amount of his non-fiction.
He shall be sorely missed. Rowling may have sold more copies of Harry Potter, but Sir Pterry wrote over 40 books.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156
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March 12, 2015 at 3:51 pm
I'm reading the last new Sam Vimes book I'll ever read and I'm not happy about it.
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March 12, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Tell me about it. I picked up his book of things he'd written as a very young man, it came out earlier this year. They're sorta YA and children's stories, but quite fun and you feel a foreshadowing that this was the genesis of Discworld.
I've met a number of authors over the years: Fred Saberhagen, Harry Harrison, L. Sprague DeCamp and his wife. It always hits you hard when you lose one that you've met whose work you've loved.
*sigh*
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