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RIP, Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett's daughter declares The Shepherd's Crown will be the last Discworld novel
That said, I always felt like the way Pratchett wrote his series made it so he wasn't just telling stories and creating characters but building a living world. I can't help but feel like there's still room to have stories set in Discworld without impacting what Pratchett created, particularly if they're new characters set in places that were never fully explored. But, perhaps that's just me having a hard time letting go and accepting that Discworld is done.
I never really had a lot of confidence in Rhianna continuing Discworld considering she hasn't even published a book, so I'm glad she hasn't gone the route of sullying her parent's legacy in an attempt at riding his coattails (see: Herbert, McCaffrey, etc.).
That said, I always felt like the way Pratchett wrote his series made it so he wasn't just telling stories and creating characters but building a living world. I can't help but feel like there's still room to have stories set in Discworld without impacting what Pratchett created, particularly if they're new characters set in places that were never fully explored. But, perhaps that's just me having a hard time letting go and accepting that Discworld is done.
Azrayne
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Problem is that that living world was rather intimately derived from Pratchett's unique worldview and life experience - which imo is what made it so alive and so unique. Nobody else could write Discworld the way Pratchett did because nobody else is Pratchett. Even towards the end, you could tell the Alzheimer's was having an effect on the quality of his writing, I'm not sure if it was a direct neurological thing or a side effect of dictation as opposed to typing (those kind of things can influence your style a lot), but somewhere around or after the Moist Von Lipwig books, it just stopped feeling like Discworld to me.
Would have had to be four books to tie up the major characters.
Granny weatherwax giving her place as head witch to tiffany.
Rincewind getting some sort of conclusion.
Death finally becoming human and Susan taking over for him plus her being able to be with lobsang as an equal.
Resolution of carrots heredity and vimes becoming patrician.
Time just caught up with th him faster then he expected I bet.