![]() She once stated, "They’re sacred, they’re Dad’s legacy and Im the protector of Discworld and that means protecting it from myself as well." His daughter Rhianna is a writer for video games, notably the Overlord series, Mirror's Edge, Heavenly Sword and the reboot of Tomb Raider - he has stated that he is happy for her to take over running Discworld, although she won't be writing new books. Pratchett was also known to have been One of Us ( the Luggage, for example, was originally created for a game of Dungeons & Dragons he played) and enjoyed a few computer games like Doom, Half-Life 2 and fan missions of Thief. He was a trustee of the Orangutan Foundation, by virtue of a liking for the animal and featuring it in the Discworld series as the Librarian. Outside of fiction, Pratchett was well-known for his sharp wit and keen awareness of human nature (and the innumerable failings thereof) one of his more popular quotes claims that the fundamental problem of the human race is that we're trying to achieve world peace and understand the very structure of the universe "using a language which was designed to tell one another where the best fruit was." Pratchett's trademark was his sense of humor - relying on wordplay, spoofing mythology and popular culture (though he usually didn't include current events in his work lest the books become dated), and publishing in genres ranging from fantasy to detective fiction to political thriller (often combining all three), rarely has there been found a phrase that he could not turn, and there are few subjects that Pterry (as his fans have affectionately dubbed him) wouldn't make at least a passing attempt to skewer on the end of a sharp metaphor. Sir Terry Pratchett OBE), he was described as the most shoplifted author in Britain. Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 - 12 March 2015) was a British Fantasy author and Archmage of Tropeomancy.
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