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| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
28 April 1948 | Birth | Born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Terry Pratchett published his first story at thirteen and went on to write 41 Discworld novels, becoming the UK's bestselling author of the 1990s. He was knighted in 2009 for services to literature. |
2009 | Award Won | Skylark Award Contribution to SF |
31 October 2010 | Award Won | World Fantasy Award Life achievement |
30 September 2011 | Award Won | British Fantasy Award Karl Edward Wagner Award for Special Achievement |
2012 | Award Won | Forry Award Lifetime achievement |
12 March 2015 | Death | Terry Pratchett died at home in Wiltshire, surrounded by his family, after an eight-year struggle with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. His final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published posthumously later that year. As per his wishes, his unfinished manuscripts were destroyed by steamroller. |
2016 | Award Won | SFWA Award Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award |
2017 | Award Won | Science Fiction Hall of Fame Creator category |
Born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Terry Pratchett published his first story at thirteen and went on to write 41 Discworld novels, becoming the UK's bestselling author of the 1990s. He was knighted in 2009 for services to literature.
Skylark Award
Contribution to SF
World Fantasy Award
Life achievement
British Fantasy Award
Karl Edward Wagner Award for Special Achievement
Forry Award
Lifetime achievement
Terry Pratchett died at home in Wiltshire, surrounded by his family, after an eight-year struggle with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. His final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published posthumously later that year. As per his wishes, his unfinished manuscripts were destroyed by steamroller.
SFWA Award
Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Creator category

Discworld
The City Watch series is one of the major story lines that make up 8 of the Discworld books. It focuses on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, formerly the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, in particular the captain, and later commander of the Watch, Samuel Vimes, usually when he is being manipulated by Lord Vetinari. The books tend to be whodunit in nature and often feature conspiracies aimed at toppling regimes.

Discworld
Death is, as you'd expect, a tall hooded skeleton with a scythe who SPEAKS IN A VOICE LIKE THE SLAMMING OF COFFIN LIDS. However, he also likes a good curry, kittens, and finds the lives of mortals endlessly fascinating. Beginning with Mort, in which Death takes on an apprentice, the series explores what happens when an immortal anthropomorphic personification develops an unhealthy interest in humanity. His granddaughter Susan Sto Helit becomes the central character from Soul Music onwards, reluctantly stepping in whenever Death goes missing or takes on new responsibilities. The five books range from workplace comedy to meditations on belief, memory, and time - Hogfather tackles the power of myth, while Thief of Time deals with the nature of time itself.

Rincewind / The Wizards
1983
The one that started it all. Rincewind is the most incompetent wizard on the Discworld - a dropout from Unseen University who can't even cast a spell. When Twoflower, the Disc's first tourist, arrives in the city of Ankh-Morpork with a sentient, homicidal trunk full of gold, Rincewind is press-ganged into serving as his guide. What follows is a journey across a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle - through dragon-haunted mountains, over the edge of the world, and into the kind of trouble only the universe's unluckiest wizard could find. Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel, a gleeful parody of fantasy fiction that lays the groundwork for one of literature's great comic creations.

Rincewind / The Wizards
1986
A sequel that picks up exactly where The Colour of Magic left off - with Rincewind falling off the edge of the Disc. The Great A'Tuin, the world-bearing turtle, is heading toward a red star, and the only thing that might save the Discworld is one of the Eight Great Spells, which has inconveniently lodged itself inside Rincewind's head. Rincewind would very much like it out. Meanwhile, the wizards of Unseen University are turning on each other, and something ancient is stirring. Still finding its feet as a series, but the jokes are sharper and the world is starting to feel lived-in.