Elf Blood

We have lost another great contributor to our collective culture. Terry Pratchett, noted author and creator of the Discworld universe, passed away yesterday after eight years of battlng Alzheimers.

I’m sure most of you reading this will be familiar with his works, and will also miss his curious and witty writing style. He wrote characters with whom we could relate, even though they were worlds away in a fantasy universe. He wrote characters with whom we empathised, and admired, and laughed and cheered along with. He wrote characters who we wish that we might meet.

And, as many other of his readers might be doing at the moment, I hope that when he met him, Death was every bit as affable and neutral as Sir Terry envisioned him to be.

He will be missed. Sorely missed. But we have plenty to remember him well by.

M.