![]() Pratchett had become a high-profile campaigner for the legalisation of assisted death. He had continued to write, completing his last book, a new Discworld novel, in the summer of 2014 before succumbing to the final stages of the disease. The author, who sold tens of millions of books worldwide, was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), a progressive degenerative condition, in 2007. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. He did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention," he said.ĪT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. "As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirise this world. "In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him," said Larry Finlay, managing director at Transworld, a division of Penguin Random House. Pratchett died at home surrounded by his family with his cat sleeping on his bed, Transworld Publishers said. ![]() LONDON - Terry Pratchett, the British author of the popular "Discworld" series of fantasy novels, has died of a form of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 66, his publishing house said on Thursday. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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