The internet has responded to news of the author’s death with Facebook posts, petitions, tributes from fans and colleagues, including Neil Gaiman and George RR Martin, and generous donations to his family’s chosen Alzheimer’s charity.
Fans left reeling by the death of Terry Pratchett have raised £28,000 for an Alzheimer’s charity, less than 24 hours after the beloved fantasy author succumbed to an infection complicated by the disease – and have also launched a hopeful petition to his lugubrious personification, Death, to “bring back Pratchett”.
Pratchett died at home on Thursday, aged 66, “with his cat sleeping on his bed, surrounded by his family”, said his publishers, Transworld. His publicist, Lynsey Dalladay, set up an appeal shortly afterwards, and by lunchtime on Friday more than 1,600 people had donated £28,053 to the charity The Research Institute for the Care of Older People (Rice).
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