Neil Gaiman's tribute to Terry Pratchett
17 January 2020
In April 2016 a multitude of friends, fans and colleagues of Sir Terry Pratchett gathered for a celebratory memorial service. The writer NEIL GAIMAN, Pratchett's longtime collaborator and co-author of Good Omens, read this moving and funny tribute, which is featured here in its entirety.
Neil Gaiman's tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
A funny and moving tribute, filmed at the memorial service to celebrate Pratchett's life
Neil Gaiman's tribute was originally published as an introduction to Terry Pratchett’s 2014 non-fiction collection A Slip of the Keyboard (Text © Neil Gaiman). Gaiman has adapted Good Omens, the novel he co-authored with Terry Pratchett in 1990. It is currently showing on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
A version of this article was originally published in February 2017.
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