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It wouldn't surprise me to learn in future years that there are notes for one or two further books but I wouldn't want them to be diluted by anyone else's hand. This book has several themes that were under development by all accounts.
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There are a few unfinished manuscripts in various states, but according to Rhianna, who now is the keeper of the flame, she will not 'in the foreseeable future' do anything with them and that we should consider all that has been published as canon.
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And that's a good thing.
They wouldn't be Discworld, without Pterry's wry twist, even if they followed his original plan (which I doubt he ever did, except in the broad outline).
Good on yer, Rhianna! You honour your father more in refusing to bow to pressure. 
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That's not to say she won't do something with the legacy. She hinted that she may use the setting, places and maybe even characters in her later work but it would never be passed off as 'in the style of' or 'with additional material by'.
Rhianna has the intellectual rites [sic], along with Lyne [Sir Pterry's widow], to do what the hell she likes with Discworld, including, but not limited to, a total re-imagination or shift forward 1,000 years. That does not mean she will. I think she will leave it ten or twenty years and when her writing has matured she'll start using it as a spring board for her own adventures.
The Diske is in good hands.
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I am in the same dilema. Wants it and dont's at the same time. 
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Having read every Discworld novel, in order of publication, right from the first, I am going to buy "Shepherd", read it (including the last page!), then put it on the bookshelf with all the others and pick up "The Colour of Magic" and start again.
I believe in that way, there will always be a 'New' pTerry novel to look forward to.
Sometimes, it just is, OK!
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They do seem to hold up to repeated reading.
I noticed the same thing with the Fritz Lieber "Fafhrd & Grey Mouser" stories- having read them again after several decades. It's fascinating to see Lieber creating many of the tropes that Pratchett riffs on. Guilds for thieves and assassins that discourage competition? A personification of death with a quirky craftsmanlike approach to his work? A major decadent city, awash with pollution, with Ankh in its name? It's all there!
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Like the reference to Pyramids. I will of course run out and buy and read the book this weekend. Thanks for the update.
It is too bad the last book isn't about Rincewind. (Who knows maybe he is in there !!)
It would have come full circle.
I will truly miss the man and his Works.
Speilberg should do a discworld movie the british efforts I have seen have not been up to par.
The eight year old kid in my 66 year old head would love that. 
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I'm feeling just the same! Actually I feel that way every time I start getting close to the end of any of his books - I just don't want it to end!
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Sorry for being late, had and will again have to go to the doctor today, was not planned.
Here a damn easy one, since I am not sure I can be online this afternoon:
_/\_ (4 letters)
Hint: Best near a lake.
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Hope it's nothing too serious.
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ERIE?
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The question mark makes it sound tentative, you should only answer if you are sure.
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It is tentative!
With these buggers I'm never sure!
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tent
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Seems like you're up for tomorrow. I got a bit late 
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_Maxxx_ wrote: tent
AAAAaaaaaaaaaaannnnddddd we have a winner !
Congrats !
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How the hell would hill fit into that ? 
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Well it looks like a hill. And hills are often found near natural lakes 
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But the pattern mate
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Well yeah, its more like a tent. but there are hills which are triangular shaped and go flat as they touch the ground. Believe me they do, at least in the paintings I make
Not a painter tho
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You are right for sure
But it's not only about the visible pattern the last and first letter (because of _/_) have to be the same because of the _.
SO hill could have never ever been a right answer
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Oh I see.
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