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[celestialweasel]

Funnily enough I had mentioned Terry Pratchett yesterday before the news of his death - I quoted Ansible on the subject of the BBC to Dr Cray (whom God preserve) and someone else  http://news.ansible.uk/a264.html'Something for the Very Strange department; the BBC contacted us about doing a prime time series based on the Guards books. Things seemed

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[smallbeasts]

The new BBC thing looks perfect for a single try, then five years lingering at the back of a drawer. I can easily imagine my kids making the lights flash before going back to Minecraft.

[celestialweasel]

Yes, quite. I wonder how many of the Raspberry Pis sold (over a million?) are being used and what for?

[zengineer]

We did Terry's Pratchett's Raising Steam only a month ago. I postulated that since he had advanced alzheimers perhaps it was not so much him writing it as him throwing out a few ideas and his editor/ghostwriter finishing it. it did rather read like a pastiche of Discworld to me. Odd that Good Omens was better than any work by either of them but The Long Earth (with Stephen Baxter) was worse than anything by either of them.
Giving children minicomputers? Why not give them embedded mini computers like we chip dogs. That should stop them running away to Iraq.