Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was an author of whom Dudley Jackson was "a devotee". There was not a single book of his that he had not read. (AUDIO: The Eternal Summer [+]Loading...["The Eternal Summer (audio story)"]) Izzy Sinclair was another fan, once asking the Eighth Doctor why they couldn't visit somewhere like Pratchett's Discworld. The Doctor replied that he'd been there, and it was "flat". (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone [+]Loading...["Fire and Brimstone (comic story)"]) Rory Williams tried to read a Terry Pratchett book on a beach on Drago 14 during his and Amy's honeymoon, but it was dissolved by a roving acid-spitting land squid, and he was unable to get a replacement in the town as, by this point in history, the book had been out of print for nearly four hundred years. (PROSE: Honeymoon Horrors [+]Loading...["Honeymoon Horrors (short story)"])
Pratchett wrote the book Guards! Guards!, which was published by Gollancz in 1989. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]) The book was stored in the Plume Coteries' Library, where [[the most canon man]] transformed its title into Noodles! Noodles! at the beginning of the Noodle Incident. (PROSE: How to Appear Noodles in Several Uneasy Lessons [+]Loading...["How to Appear Noodles in Several Uneasy Lessons (short story)"])
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- Sir Terry Pratchett also wrote the introduction to Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who. All profits from the book were donated to Alzheimer's Research UK, a charity he often supported due to suffering from dementia himself.
- The first Discworld video game based on Pratchett's work feature voice acting by Jon Pertwee.
- In the video game Discworld 2 the "Travelling Shop" disappears and reappears in various locations throughout the map accompanied by the sound effect of the Doctor's TARDIS.
- Good Omens, co-written by Pratchett and occasional Doctor Who writer Neil Gaiman, was made into a TV series, starring David Tennant as Crowley.
