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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 08 2017, @09:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the fighting-the-writing-dead dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:29AM (#565560)

    You might have missed that in reading the summary, but after the steam roller, the squished remains were apparently put through a rock crusher. They're gonna need someone who is VERY good at puzzles if they want to recover anything outta that :p