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The following year, Pratchett expanded the story, retitled it “The Hades Business,” convinced his aunt to type it up for him, and submitted it to Science Fantasy magazine. The two-page story, which saw the Devil hire an ad agency to help lure tourists to Hell, earned Pratchett a perfect score and impressed his teacher so much that she had it published in the December 1962 issue of the school’s magazine. Pratchett wrote his first fantasy story, “Business Rivals,” as a school assignment when he was 13 years old. Terry Pratchett sold his first short story when he was 14 years old. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pratchett’s first novel, here are seven things you might not know about the architect of Discworld. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. “AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

Pratchett was a consummate storyteller until the very end, announcing his own death in the form of a heart-rending, Discworld-themed micro-story prepared by Pratchett and tweeted by his assistant, Rob Wilkins, in the hours after the author died on March 12, 2015, at the age of 66: Pratchett was diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s in 2007, but he continued to work as the disease progressed, using voice recognition software when he could no longer type. Pratchett’s sprawling Discworld series has enchanted readers all over the planet and spawned a cottage industry of supplemental material, from frameable maps to cookbooks.

Pratchett’s debut was a low-key affair-the book launch was held in the carpet department of a London furniture store-but he would go on to become one of the world’s most beloved authors, writing or co-writing more than 70 books for readers of all ages. It’s been 50 years since Terry Pratchett’s first novel, The Carpet People, quietly hit UK bookstores in November 1971.

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