Terry Pratchett, the British writer behind the Discworld-fantasyreeks, died at the age of 66. Pratchett was suffering for years with a rare form of Alzheimer’s, but did last summer still a new book in the Discworld series.
Pratchett wrote more than seventy books, mostly fantasy. A large part of it, more than forty, appeared in the popular Discworld-novels. In that comic fantasyserie parodieerde Pratchett well-known authors such as Tolkien, Lovecraft and Shakespeare.
The first book in the Discworld series came out in 1983; last summer, the last book out, in spite of his dementia. The death of Pratchett may not be the end of the series to mean: the author has indicated that he’s fine would feel if his daughter Rhianna Pratchett, the author, the stick takes over.
The author was suffering from posterior cortical atrophy, an extremely rare form of Alzheimer’s, already suspecting some scientists to be a separate disease. In contrast to regular dementia patients with pca initially not to have a worse memory, though it may, at a later stage. Have pca patients bother to do the calculations, and the games of words.