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Old 09-05-2017, 09:48 AM   #1
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Terry Pratchett's unpublished works destroyed
A hard drive containing unfinished works by Terry Pratchett has been crushed by a steamroller, as per instructions left by the fantasy novelist.

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what no backup?
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Old 09-05-2017, 10:46 AM   #2
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I expect that any backups will have already been wiped. His executors seem to be following his wishes in that regard.
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Old 09-05-2017, 01:09 PM   #3
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I expect that any backups will have already been wiped. His executors seem to be following his wishes in that regard.
Except for his own personal copy...
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Richard Henry, curator of Salisbury Museum, said: "The steamroller totally annihilated the stone blocks underneath but the hard drive survived better than expected so we put it in a stone crusher afterwards which I think probably finally did it in".
They did it all wrong. They should've blended it


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Except for his own personal copy...
That's precisely what the destroyed drive *was*. His personal copy.

Props to the man; I will never have to curse him the way I do Tolkien, Herbert, etc.

Of course, I still haven't followed the destruction command he inscribed in my copy of Good Omens. Perhaps in *my* will.
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Whose personal copy?
I'm suggesting the lawyer secretly made a copy.
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I'm suggesting the lawyer secretly made a copy.
Scum lawyer if so.
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Do you have any evidence to support this assertion?
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Nah, just speculation, based on nothing more than my understanding of human nature and the need for publishers to keep milking the sales from dead/nearly dead authors.
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Works for me
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I would urge caution in such speculation. There are such things as libel laws.
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Props to the man; I will never have to curse him the way I do Tolkien, Herbert, etc.
Are Tolkien, Herbert and the rest really at fault for the actions of their heirs?
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