Later, I met Vimes, to whom I owe my good boots. To be unharmfully rude and have linguistic fun with this book was such a great relief, and I learnt many lessons there that I kept.

Susan, teenage boarding school rebel Deathtress, hot for the boy in the band who needed her that one time. Luckily, for when that thick, full year of magic was too familiar, my school library had a paperback of Soul Music. I went to that trouble because his words were worth it, even spoken.Ĭlaire: When I was in years nine and ten, I was having a bad time and read the cover off my copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I carried around a purple portable tape player and the tapes to work to listen to on break, and listened for hours and hours at home. The thing was, it was in audiocassette form. Here’s how much his work meant to me: I found an audiobook of one of the Discworld books, Thief of Time.

I have sobbed more than once from his works, and I don’t regret the tears. He started the Discworld series with simple satire of fantasy tropes but moved onto societal critique and stories that could make the reader cry.

I adored his use of humor, his insight and wit, his ability to lay words down and have them truly mean something. I think the first work I read by him was The Last Hero, and I looked for the rest of his works from there. Rachel Stevens: I remember working at a library part time in high school, and tracking down every Pratchett book I could find. Terry Pratchett was an important author–to a lot of you, to a lot of your faves ( Kieron Gillen, for example), to a lot of us.

Soul music by terry pratchett