terry pratchett, creator of universes, carnivorous plant cultivator and regular resident in the stratospheric end of the bestseller lists, is late. He who has made Death ride a horse called Binky is as much at the mercy of London traffic as any other mortal....

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Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, he said in a message posted to his illustrator's Web site.In a brief note to fans entitled "An Embuggerance," Pratchett, 59, said he was taking the news "fairly philosophically"...

In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Stableford presents a critical reading of Pratchett's background and body of work, focusing on the dominant recurring themes in Pratchett's Discworld series.

In the following interview, Pratchett discusses his hopes for humanity's future, his beliefs about the nature of science, and his feelings about the marketing of the Discworld series.

In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Miller observes that Pratchett's Discworld series presents the author as a satiric and ironic observer of twentieth-century social mores.