Sir Terry Pratchett 1948-2015: an appreciation

I remember watching Sir Terry Pratchett's documentary 'Choosing to Die', and finding it all too familiar. In the film Terry accompanied a man named Peter Smedley to Dignitas in Switzerland where he chose to end his life after being diagnosed with motor 

Sir Terry Pratchett, the author best known for his Discworld series, has died aged 66. His novels weaved fantasy, science fiction, satire and whimsy to great effect — more than 80 million Discworld books have been sold 

In Terry Pratchett's novel Going Postal, an allegory about the creation of an Internet-like telegraph system called "the clacks," workers who die in the line of duty have their names "sent home," by being transmitted up and down the line in the system

People nerdier and smarter than me will write better tributes to Pratchett, and I will read them all greedily, although they'll be a poor substitute for any further books he might have written. But I do want to take a moment to talk about one of

We celebrate the life of Terry Pratchett, who has died after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, with portraits that find him brandishing a sword forged from a meteorite, at home with his daughter Rhianna and