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* ''[[The Dark Side of the Sun]]'' and ''[[Strata]]'', his first two adult novels.
* The ''[[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]'' for children. ''Only You Can Save Mankind'' has been adapted for radio, the other two for TV.
* ''[[Good Omens]]'', a collaboration with [[Neil Gaiman]]. A mini-series
* ''[[Nation]]'', a non-''Discworld'' fantasy children's novel, released 11 September 2008.
* ''Dodger'', [[Historical Fiction]] inspired by [[Charles Dickens]]' the [[Artful Dodger]] from ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', (who is implied to have been inspired by Pratchett's title character), released 13 September 2012.
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Pratchett once said that the ''[[Discworld]]'' series would probably never end; what ''would'' end Discworld, he said, was sheer overcrowding. The City Watch books were already problematic in that regard, as it was hard to write a story set in Ankh-Morpork that didn't somehow involve the Watch (at which point it ''became'' a Watch book, [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|regardless of his original plot outline]]). This presumably explains the creation of the most recent protagonist Moist Von Lipwig, who by virtue of his past profession was able to be both a powerful and influential city figure while wishing to have nothing to do with the Watch.
In 2009 he became Sir Terry, after being included in the 2008 Christmas Honours list, and was reportedly "flabbergasted". In celebration, he [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015182519/http://www.news.com.au/technology/terry-pratchett-creates-a-sword-with-meteorites/story-e6frfro0-1225926584339 had a sword forged] from [[Thunderbolt Iron]]. As of 2010 he also became [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025232012/http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/pressreleases/pressRelease.php?headerID=1604&pressReleaseArchive=2011 Professor at Trinity College, Dublin].
At a Con in 2009 he announced, "I will not die of Alzheimer's. I shall make other arrangements; [[Gallows Humor|I'm going]] [[Taking You with Me|to take the disease with me.]]" Sure enough, in 2011 he began the process intended to lead to his eventual assisted [[Insistent Terminology|death]]. Ironically, he passed away on 12 March 2015 of completely natural causes, not having let the disease slow him down one bit.
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