After we lost the great Terry Pratchett in March this year, the fans all started to wonder if he had any unpublished work that we may see in the future.
And it turns out he did…
But don’t get too excited because in typical Pratchett fashion, we’re never going to see it.
Ahead of a new exhibition about the author’s life and work, a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller named Lord Jericho was used at the Great Dorset Steam Fair to crush the hard-drives belonging to the great man that contained some of his unfinished work.
And the best bit? It was all according to Pratchett’s wishes!
How great and awful is that?!
Neil Gaiman, Pratchett’s close friend and collaborator, said after the writer’s death that “whatever he [Pratchett] was working on at the time of his death to be taken out along with his computers, to be put in the middle of a road and for a steamroller to steamroll over them all”.
And so, on Friday, Rob Wilkins, the man who manages Pratchett’s estate, tweeted out (see them below) that he was about to honour the writer’s wishes. and then he did.
The fans, thankfully, saw Pratchett’s humour in the action and embraced the funny side. But it was surely bittersweet.
The hard drive will go on display at Terry Pratchett: HisWorld, which opens at the Salisbury museum which will run from 16 September until 13 January 2018.
About to fulfill my obligation to Terry @SalisburyMuseum @Wiltshire_flo pic.twitter.com/B0xr3V5Cbg
— Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) August 25, 2017
There goes the browsing history… Many thanks to @steamfair. Soon to be on display at @SalisburyMuseum in September https://t.co/Di8tvTO4Hi pic.twitter.com/onGGWLDYL4
— Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) August 25, 2017
The steam roller Lord Jericho at @steamfair proving modern technology is no match for the might of the Industrial Revolution @terryandrob pic.twitter.com/iLZjuRZnnD
— Richard Henry (@Wiltshire_flo) August 29, 2017
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