For those of you who don’t know anything about science fiction – Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld series, died in March of this year. Not old at all he was 66. Pratchett had early onset Alzheimers. He was very open about it, made a lot of appearances and campaigned for research. The Wiki is quite good, accurate and avoids being overly fawning. I had the privilege of meeting Sir Terry at Glasgow in 2005. Unlike a certain number of authors, he was an incredibly nice human being.
One of our community (John Kentner) is in the process of producing a film which he has funded through Kickstarter to document the effect that Pratchett and Discworld have had on people’s lives.
The Discworld Exhibit is in the main hall:
where you can be greeted by Venari
learn the basics of washing things
Think about wearing an apron sponsored by “Cut me own throat” Dibbler
Death going to a party
Making Money
For the Librarians (Yes, Pat, Ann, Linda – I do mean you….)
Ook!
The Luggage
Teeth, and feet
the Luggage
Sgt Cherry
Outside of the Exhibit – I found
Noah hanging with a dragon
And posted at all outside doors…
and reality of the outside air quality
Our evening ended with the Masquerade and a concert by Tom Smith. I didn’t last till the award presentations. 2300+ is way past my bedtime on any continent.
