5/29/2023 0 Comments Neil gaiman terry pratchett books![]() ![]() There’s a reading from Good Omens, Gaiman’s first in 25 years: “It was very early on Saturday morning on the last day of the world,” he begins. And then Terry, incredibly bravely, decided he wanted the right to die at the time of his own choosing, and given that that was illegal in the UK, he decided to do what he could to draw attention to it.” But … he announced it to the world and he used it as an opportunity to start the dialogue, to start talking about the fact that in the last 30 years we have made such incredible progress in the battle against cancer … compared to what’s gone into cancer, it’s pennies have gone into Alzheimer’s … and so Terry decided to get loud about that and to start talking about that. ![]() “He’s got serious critical attention and now he risks losing it. ![]() “Here’s somebody who’s fought to be taken seriously and to make people realise that you can write a serious novel, set in a fantasy context, on a flat world on the back of elephants on the back of a giant turtle floating through space and it can still be a real novel. “It was like Michelangelo phoning and asking if you want to paint a ceiling together”).Īnd it sees (around 21 minutes in) Gaiman discuss Pratchett’s “huge and noble” decision to speak out about his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. It covers some well-trodden ground, such as how the pair decided to collaborate on Good Omens (it was Gaiman’s idea Pratchett asked him if he could take it on or collaborate Gaiman said yes. ![]()
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