The Shepherd's Crown
by Terry Pratchett, Manuel Viciano Delibano, Paul Kidby, Laura Ellen Andersen · first published 2015
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The final Discworld novel.
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The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett. His last work. Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson (I'd recommend this to families with young children) CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems by Lea Verou.…
on “Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2015” ↗Like many Pratchett fans I have not read the last published Discworld book, The Shepherd's Crown, because then I will have read them all. The author of this piece hasn't read the Witches books! I'm jealous, they still have so much great Pratchett to get through.
on “I Miss Terry Pratchett” ↗Since some people seem to have missed it: the final Discworld book, and Pratchett's deliberate "signing off," is the last Tiffany Aching book (The Shepherd's Crown), not Raising Steam. I can't really say much about the central theme without giving away a disc-shaking change to the world, because it's about that event and the next generation (Tiffany) carrying on.…
on “I Miss Terry Pratchett” ↗