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In a rare moment of sanity in the literary world, the manager of the late Sir Terry Pratchett's estate has followed the beloved author's wishes and destroyed the hard drive of the computer containing his unfinished works by crushing it with a steamroller. As many as ten unfinished works were on the drive, which, after being unsuccessfully steamrolled several times, was finally securely destroyed by being put through a rock crusher.
The pieces will be displayed at the Salisbury Museum as part of a Pratchett exhibition.
While I do, personally and professionally, mourn the loss of Sir Terry's remaining work; as a librarian navigating a publishing world increasingly dominated by the likes of James Patterson's literary mill, I applaud the Pratchett estate's willingness to defend him from a legacy of eternal "new releases" based on random back-of-a-napkin jottings and used-bubble-gum-wrapper sketches, as seems to be the industry norm these days.
Now, all they have to do is resist the no-doubt-considerable monetary lure of officially-licensed Terry Pratchett's Discworld (TM) novels.
That being said, what posthumous releases or ghostwritten literary sequels have you read and enjoyed? Also, do you consider any of those be considered worthy sequels or additions to the originals?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @01:29AM (4 children)
No, its lost forever. Its insanity to destroy things.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday September 09 2017, @05:53AM (2 children)
> Its insanity to destroy things.
This big red button vaporizes NK and all its military assets around the world, ensuring no retaliation with 100 percent probability. And suppose you are american. Are you insane if you press it?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @11:32AM (1 child)
Yes. To be specific, if you press it you're a sociopathic genocidal mass murderer. There are 25 million people living in NK. That's not even Holocaust numbers, that's Stalin numbers.
(Score: 1) by ants_in_pants on Monday September 11 2017, @05:44PM
20 Million is the highest number that's seriously considered by historians, and that entirely depends on what you attribute to famine and what you attribute to malice.
Just thought I'd let you know, it's bad form to overstate the magnitude of a genocide.
-Love, ants_in_pants
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @01:14PM
Ownership of a thing requires control, and control includes the possibility of destruction. The owner of the ideas dictated that as part of his control over his own ideas that the unpublished ideas preserved in his computer hard drive be destroyed.
Do you question the ownership of the drive and ideas involved here?