Say so long to pipe dream of posthumous Terry Pratchett novels . accord to the late author ’s wishes , his calculator ’s punishing effort has been ruin by steamroller , consider any unfinished study with it . According to theBBC , it may have concur up to 10 uncomplete novel .
The destruction , which no doubt crushed the hearts of many a historian in addition to the mebibyte of datum , took place at the Great Dorset Steam Fair , a five - day cultural consequence dedicated to steam - power machinery .
Pratchett ’s longtime assistant Rob Wilkins , who has been oversee Pratchett ’s estate since the author buy the farm in 2015 , was the one who found a juggernaut to complete the writer ’s mandate . Pratchett desire to foreclose his unfinished projects from being completed by anyone else . weigh Pratchett ’s condition as a literary submarine sandwich , it probably was n’t a half-baked fright . His last novel , put out five calendar month after his expiry , sell almost53,000 copiesin its first three days on the ledge .
Apparently , though , not only are steamrollers intemperate to find , they ’re not as effective for destroying computer ironware as you ’d call back . “ The steamroller entirely annihilated the stone blocks underneath but the hard private road survived better than expected so we put it in a stone crusher afterwards which I think in all likelihood finally did it in , ” Richard Henry , curator of the upcoming Salisbury Museum exhibitionTerry Pratchett : His World , told the BBC .
The pieces of the shell drive will be on display at the museum when the exhibition opens on September 16 . And that ’s not the only upcoming show of passion for Pratchett in Salisbury , his hometown . The urban center will also be getting a 7 - base - tallbronze statueof the source soon .
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