Neil Gayman, when asked what he would say to Death if he met him: "I want my friend back" Ultimate answer.

Ann C Crispin will always have my admiration for the job she did with her novelization of that most dearly beloved old TV serial of mine: the original “V”. I treasure the paperback. (I believe I once lent it as a gift to a young lady I met in grad school, and never got it back, so I bought a new copy which I have). In that grad school where I was, chance, or something else (I don’t believe in chance), had me meet the daughter of Marc Singer’s first college sweetheart (Marc Singer famously played the Resistance’s hero in the V TV Serial ). If I remember well, I even briefly spoke on the phone with that former girlfriend of Marc’s. More recently, it has been my great pleasure to exchange a couple of messages with “V”’s original creator Kenneth Johnson.

Is this same guy who tried to ruin David Letterman?

GNU TP

Interesting difference from the Terry Pratchett method of 'start a book right after you finish the previous one'. I guess that explains the difference in novel count.

I'm very much feeling the 'not today' angle on things. As a biker, I have the choice to not survive any given ride. I choose to live to ride another day.

Ah-ha! I thought as much; he went back and added bits, and stuck the fancy ideas in ahead of time to write between. I'll have to try that myself, although I feel I need more of a plan than he implies. Discworld holds a very special place in my heart, though. It's the first book series I really got into, and it was a companion through my teenage years. It's pretty much why I'm able to devour books in a few days now; how else was I going to get through the books before I had to hand them back to the library?

Ahhh, Sir Terry. He made a world simply for fun, and we get to enjoy his genius through it. To me, his works are more alive and relevant than Tolkien or Martin. While I appreciate their work I felt at arm’s length from their world. Pratchett, in his way, welcomed you into Discworld and even the footnotes he provided was as though he was a friend nudging you and whispering extra facts to you, so you wouldn’t be alarmed. Overall, as a fantasy writer, he has won me over more than the high fantasy/high drama fiction out there. There’s not enough words in the world to express the depth of his writing.

what a cool interviewer - a reader of the series with love for them like the rest of us

They should have sat closer

I love these books I’m writing a fanfic

Hearing this, knowing the path he's on, certainly has a lot of emotions. <3

Sam Vimes feels like the expression of pTerry’s righteous anger with the world. He sees the problems, the injustices, and wants to set them right or at least have them acknowledged whether that’s the wealthy enslaving a race of beings because they can or a maid taking candle ends home from the palace because her family are poor but fearful of her job because she the main wage earner.

14:04 losing money on the deal 😂 Carrot!

Such a marvellous interview, thank you

Man that is a deep voice

Good interview!

Omg, love this "People say that being a black woman is a primary influence on your work... I am not gonna ask that, I am going to ask if you think being a white male is a primary influence on your colleagues' work", love the interviewer.

4:00 - "Terry Pratchett - Author" is a bit of an understatement, like "Michelangelo - Painter" 🥹

Sir Terry Pratchett changed my life. I've not had the worst life or the best, not by a long shot, but I encountered the tragedy of death fairly often, and I had many a brush with it myself. The Death of Discworld completely changed my perspective on my mortality. From there, more of my life was changed. You'll always have a place on my shelf, and in my heart, Sir Pratchett.

I'm from Ukraine, and the only book, which is translated into russian, was Down from Lilith’s Brood series. So, after reading it, I was impressed big time and started to learn English faster to be able to read rest of her books in English lnguage. Now I've almost read all her novels and I must say it is the most thoughtful, clever and amazing books, not only in sci-fi genre, I've ever read!

Is this the only time that we haven't seen him signing paper while talking to someone?

Man, I think I've watched every Pratchett interview now 😢

I wish he were still here. He made a lot of sense out of the ridiculous

I knew her personally. She was a patient at a practice where I worked in Maryland many years ago. She had a large place in the country and she loved horses. She had some health problems which, in my opinion caused her to pass on too soon. God have her in His loving embrace.

Death is easy. Dying is a bitch. The crawl toward Death through absolutely harrowing physical and mental torment is as horrible as any "horror" story.

I do love Sam and Sybil. An urchin from the lowest part of Ankh Morpork and a lady (the Richest Lady) from the top tier of society...and they click. Each gets insight into parts of society they never really understood. Sam is learning about the rich...and Sybil is ... she's just so very wonderful. She meets people that members of her "class" either despise or don't care about...or even refuse to accept their existence, and she melts the hearts of those lower class members with whom she comes into contact. She treats them exactly the same, with the same dignity and respect as she does with her supposed "peers," and in doing so she teaches Sam a lot about what true noblesse oblige really means. Not as a stapled on "you have to do this even though it disgusts you" issue but because she does care about pretty much everyone. It's really a brilliant essay on what nobility should be as opposed to what it degenerates into over centuries.

Sam Vimes is probably the best fleshed out character in Sir Terry's works. The only other character who comes close is Granny Weatherwax, but her past is only given to us in bits and pieces. But Sam...we know him. We even get to see mature Vimes interact with himself in a younger time. It's really amazing. (Courtesy of the Monks of Time.)

WE END AS WE BEGAN

Luto eterno ... 🖤🖤🖤

I just love her writing. She is my favorite author. What an intelligent woman.

What if we had not dropped the bombs? How would that have played out?

Alguém assistindo??🎉🎉🎉

Intelligent interviewer.

This man and his writing are one of the brightest guiding lights of my life. The books are so full of different layers of thought and interpretation, so many jokes that I didn't get until 2 or 3 reads in. And rib aching fits of laughter that sneak back up on you 2 hours, 2 days, 2 years, 2 decades later. I fully expect in a future life to suddenly break out laughing at something I read in one of his books.

I remember hearing about the difficulties of being black female author in the 60s, 70s, 80s, during an interview of bell hooks. She heard editors say to her, "we already have a black female author to publish this year"

How is it that her books have not been picked up for films? Cohen Bros!!! wake up!!! I have only just now found out about her and am reading a second book. She preceded Outlander with her book 1979 with her book "Kindred"

3:23 these are the exact words he put in Perrin’s mouth. No wonder he said he associated with him the most.

How did choosing title (a palindrome) figure into plot (eg. centered by lucky 7)? N has a modern exploitation in Ukraine: Operation Z (Hey N (Nazi)! Bang, you're Zed!)

It is so interesting to see Matt being introduced as anything but a part of Critical Role.

TP 4ever!

I love Pratchett's work with a passion, but he really need to stop writing when his disease made his books read like increasingly bad fanfiction. UNSEEN ACADEMICALS was the last time he read like himself.

I am in AWE!!✨👑👑👸🏾

6.5.2024 Journey - Send Her My Love (my cover version 😘) *_It's been so long_* 🤔 *_Since I've seen their face_* 👨🏻👨🏻👩🏻👩🏽👨🏾👨🏻👨🏻 *_Who said they're doin' fine_* 🫤 *_I still recall_* 😑 *_A sad live-play_* 😢 *_How it hurt so bad to see all cry_* 😭 *_They didn't want to say good-bye..._* 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈 *_Space ain't above_* 🌎🟰💩 *_shame glories remain_* 🤮 *_Space ain't above_* 🌍🟰💩 *_posers never fade_* 🧑🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀👨🏾‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀 *_Space ain't above_* 🌏🟰💩 *_The same old tale, the same old boom_* 💥 *_I'm on the mode again_* ✍ *_They needed so much more_* 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 *_Than truth could give_* 👎 *_They knew our gov 'could not' pretend_* 🥸 *_Rotten hearts can always spend..._* 💵 *_Space ain't above_* 🌎🟰💩 *_shame glories remain_* 🤮 *_Space ain't above_* 🌍🟰💩 *_posers never fade_* 🧑🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀👨🏾‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀 *_Space ain't above_* 🌏🟰💩 *_Cancel out their fame I'm screamin'_* 😡 *_Infections of fake space I'm healin'_* 👨‍🏫 *_It's their choice_* 😞 *_That keeps on hurting me_* 😒 *_Space ain't, space ain't above_* 🌐🟰💩 *_Posers never fade_* 🧑🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀👨🏾‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀 *_Shame glories remain_* 🤮 *_Space ain't, space ain't above_* 🌐🟰💩

My man was on his death bed and still creating the beautiful world of The Wheel of Time! Amazing

What’s wild is that Parable of the Sower has come true for many people migrating away from where they live now. The amount of specific realistic detail in her writing is outstanding.

His voice and reading style is just like he wrote it himself. I enjoyed many books narrated by him. Thank you!

Wonder who he meant. I suspect he misremembered. Both William de Worde from the Truth and a couple of major characters from the Watch appear in Monstrous Regiment.

Astonished he said ‘Tudor London’. Clearly he is a bit of an authority on the Discworld and Ankh-Morpork (…) but for many, many reasons I’d have focused on early-ish 19th century London

I love her. I have all her books. Reading her patternist series now! The way her Parable books reflect what’s currently happening in the world today is spooky.