/lit/ - Literature

I like Terry Pratchett.

Thoughts on his work?

>What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
What did he mean by this?

I've only read about ten Discworld books but it seems like every other sentence is either hilarious or poignant. What are our favourite Discworld books? Mine are - Night Watch, Small Gods, Snuff, The Last Hero, Going Postal, Jingo, Mort and The Hogfather.

Why does Reddit love him?

How did he write so much, bros?

>Magic realism is fantasy written by people who speak Spanish.
>Incidentally, I'd argue that SF represents literature's real mainstream. What we now normally consider the mainstream—so called realistic fiction—is a small literary genre, fairly recent in origin, which is likely to be relatively short lived. When I look back at the foundations of literature, I see literary figures who, if they were alive today, would probably be members of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Homer? He would certain belong to the SFWA. So would Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare. That tradition is literature's mainstream, and it has been what has grown out of that tradition which has been labeled SF or whatever label you want to use.
Oh wait, nope, those are both Gene Wolfe quotes.
https://books.google.com/books?id=MkPfjCVo3g4C&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm

ITT based authors that hate trannies