Petition asks Death to bring Sir Terry Pratchett back – BBC Newsbeat

Sir Terry Pratchett fans have started a petition… asking “Death” to bring the author back.

The petition on Change.Org – called “Reinstate Terry Pratchett” – has already received thousands of signatures.

The description reads: “Because Terry Pratchett said this: ‘There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.'”

Far from being a scary figure, Sir Terry presented “Death” as a witty guy with an unpopular job to do.

via Petition asks Death to bring Sir Terry Pratchett back – BBC Newsbeat.

 

RIP Terry Pratchett; your physical self has passed, but your world will live on

“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.”

The story of Terry Pratchett’s death, as told on his Twitter account.

Tributes are being paid around the world for the renowned fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett, the creator of the cult Discworld books, as well as thirty other novels, who sadly died today. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease eight years ago, Sir Terry reportedly passed away surrounded by his family, peacefully on his bed with his beloved cat.

My own relationship with Terry Pratchett existed in an alternative world. A world which is flat, floating in space on the back of a giant turtle.

I discovered the Discworld back in 1997, when one of Terry’s multitude of fans, sat in a black chair and was quizzed about this strange land on the BBC quiz show Mastermind. Having never heard of the Discworld novels, nor of Terry Pratchett, I sat bewildered as a series of questions were asked about this strange flat land. So bizarre were the questions, and the answers that I knew instantly Discworld was a land I had to travel to.

Over the years since that chance discovery, I have spent countless hours travelling in Pratchett’s strange flat world, although it has been quite awhile since my last visit. So today to mark the passing of this wonderful wordsmith, I have decided to make a vow to you, and myself, to go back to Discworld and document my findings. Starting after I have completed the novel I am currently working through, I will start from the beginning and read all forty Discworld novels in order, and record them in a new section, Rediscovering Discworld .(Don’t fear this isn’t going to become a Discworld blog, I will break it up with other novels.)