![]() ![]() I have my order in already.Īs a writer, Pratchett is a smart aleck who loves puns and silliness and verbal surprises. His final Discworld novel The Shepherd’s Crown is being published on September 1. The final Discworld novel - “the Shepherd’s Crown” Then, I waited, like all of his hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide, for the next book and the next and the next. ![]() After reading The Fifth Elephant - the title is the pun on a popular sci-fi movie of the time The Fifth Element - I went back to the beginning of the Discworld series and read all of the earlier 23. With Pratchett, though, it was different. Often, after reading one work, I’d get ahold of one or more of the authors other works. I’d read whatever new book the author had produced, and then we’d sit down together and talk. It was an exhilarating experience, a sort of super-graduate-level course in the art of writing. Over a period of a decade or so, I interviewed a lot of writers for the Tribune. We met in the lobby of a hotel a few steps from Tribune Tower, and he was, as I wrote, “a short man who, with his bald head and grizzled white beard, looks a bit gnomish himself.” He spoke in a thin, high voice with an engaging lisp. Terry Pratchett in 2007 (Robin Zebrowski) ![]() It was the 24th of his Discworld books, and it had to do with dwarfs, trolls, gnomes, humans, vampires, zombies and werewolves. Fifteen years ago, I interviewed Terry Pratchett for the Chicago Tribune about his new novel The Fifth Elephant. ![]()
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