Wossname -- March 2018 -- Special edition

[News and reviews about the works of Sir Terry Pratchett]

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Newsletter of the Klatchian Foreign Legion
March 2018 (Volume 21, Issue 3, Post 1)

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AS LONG AS HIS NAME IS SPOKEN...

Today should have been just another part of the run-up to Sir Terry 
Pratchett's 70th birthday: a day of great celebration. But instead, 
today is a day of quiet remembrance, because this day when, three years 
ago, Sir Pterry died.

He left behind him a vast and masterful body of work, millions of fans, 
and characters – and a certain world – that will live far beyond his 
mortal time. He achieved the relatively rare state known as Being A 
Successful Author In His Own Lifetime. He was the cause of great gusts 
of mirth, oceans of tears, and more than a few marriages (mine, for 
one). He managed to commit literature without being pretentious and to 
commit popular prose without dumbing down. He gave the world characters 
who lived and breathed and, in some cases, served as role models for a 
generation (and will do so for the next, and the next...). Above all, he 
appreciated and respected and gave back to the people who spread his 
work around the world: you, O Readers.

Oh, there will be some celebrations next month on what would have been 
Sir Pterry's 70th birthday, particularly around performances of various 
Discworld plays, but it won't be quite the same.

But he lives on, in his books, and in the novel-writing and scholarship 
awards he founded, and in the classes he taught at Trinity College 
Dublin, and in the research into dementia that he sponsored and helped 
to promote, and in his advocacy for death with dignity, and in the films 
and plays and – soon, soon – television series based on his work, and in 
that small corner of Roundworld known as Wincanton that will forever be 
a piece of Ankh-Morpork...

...and in our hearts.

Raise your glasses on this his deathday, and again next month on his 
would-have-been birthday. Remember him. Send him along to your children 
and grandchildren. For as long as his name is spoken, the memory of him 
will not leave our world.

– Annie Mac, Editor


Terence David John Pratchett

Creator of universes, maker of true magic, activist who mattered

28th April 1948–12th March 2015

May he ride the Overhead forever

GNU


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