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An ailing brain with imagination undimmed

Last year Terry Pratchett, the bestselling author of the Discworld fantasies, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. How does the writer cope with a disease that whittles away at his brain?

Vanishing letters

Terry Pratchett on how he had to learn to type again

Pratchett criticises drugs ruling

Renowned author and Alzheimer's patient Terry Pratchett criticises the decision to limit access to a drug.

Terry Pratchett fan-afghan -- the Pratchgan

Kairsten sez, A group of Terry Pratchett fans, known as the Ankh Morpork Knitter's Guild from the fiber arts site http://ravelry.com, were inspired by Mr Pratchett's Alzheimer's diagnosis to create a group afghan (known as The Pratchgan) to give to the author. The woman who collected the squares and sewed the quilt had the opportunity to give the Pratchgan to Mr Pratchett at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday. She blogged about it; the finished Pratchgan can be seen here, and there's a Flickr group containing many of the squares here. It's a pretty special project and Mr Pratchett seemed to like the blanket. The Pratchgan 2008 - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!! (Thanks, Kairsten!)...

NASA: Mars is good habitat for Terry Pratchett dragons

That's the gist, anyway In a development which may untwist a few knickers around the internet, NASA scientists have now explained just what their Phoenix robot lander has found in the soil of Mars - and what the implications are for possible discovery of life on the Red Planet.?