Thursday, March 12, 2015

Terry Pratchett


Terry Pratchett died today. The world has lost its best fantasy satirist. I’m having trouble imagining a world without a new Terry Pratchett novel to look forward to.  Whether he was riffing on politics, religion, universities, or death, he always gave a laugh-out-loud depiction of human life.  Despite his lampooning of humanity, he gave me hope. Hope that we could recognize ourselves, hope that we could laugh at ourselves, hope that we could maybe even improve.

Facing life without a new novel featuring Death, or his granddaughter Susan, or Granny Weatherwax, or Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men is going to be hard. Let’s all read some Terry Pratchett tonight. The Wee Free Men, Equal Rites, Reaper Man, any of them will make Terry’s passing a little more bearable. And we’ll be the better for it.

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