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TERRY'S ALL GONE

Hard drive containing Terry Pratchett’s unpublished novels flattened by a steamroller and then smashed by a concrete crusher

The author's long-serving assistant Rob Wilkins used a six-and-a-half tonne vintage machine named "Lord Jericho" to roll over the hard drive

A HARD drive containing Terry Pratchett's unfinished works has been destroyed by a steamroller in accordance with his wishes.

Rob Wilkins, the writer's long-serving assistant, shared the moment on Twitter with the caption: "One lousy steamroller, 10 unpublished novels and look at all the trouble I'm in!"

 A hard drive containing Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels was destroyed by a steamroller in accordance with his last wishes
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A hard drive containing Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels was destroyed by a steamroller in accordance with his last wishesCredit: AFP
 Rob Wilkins, the writer's long-serving assistant shared the moment on Twitter with the caption: "One lousy steamroller, 10 unpublished novels and look at all the trouble I'm in!"
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Rob Wilkins, the writer's long-serving assistant shared the moment on Twitter with the caption: "One lousy steamroller, 10 unpublished novels and look at all the trouble I'm in!"Credit: AFP

Before destroying the hard drive, Wilkins tweeted that he was "about to fulfil my obligation to Terry".

He used a six-and-a-half tonne vintage machine named "Lord Jericho" to roll over the hard drive at the Great Dorset Steam Fair last week, before a stone-crushing machine was used to finish it off.

Pratchett, who sold more than 85 million books worldwide in 37 languages, died in 2015 aged 66 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

His Discworld novels about a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants standing on a giant turtle are some of the best-selling works in English fiction.

He wrote the first book in the series, "The Colour of Magic", in the late 1960s although it was not published until 1983.

Pratchett finished the 41st book in the series in 2014 before succumbing to the final stages of his disease.

 He used a six-and-a-half tonne vintage machine named "Lord Jericho" to roll over the hard drive at the Great Dorset Steam Fair last week
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He used a six-and-a-half tonne vintage machine named "Lord Jericho" to roll over the hard drive at the Great Dorset Steam Fair last weekCredit: AFP

The remains of his hard drive will go on display next month at an exhibition about the author at Salisbury Museum, near where he lived.

The museum's curator Richard Henry was cautious about the hard drive's contents.

 The remains of his hard drive will go on display next month at an exhibition about the author at Salisbury Museum
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The remains of his hard drive will go on display next month at an exhibition about the author at Salisbury MuseumCredit: AFP

He said: "I know there was 10 unpublished stories that Terry was working on and it was his request that they were run over by a steamroller."

"But what exactly is in the hard drive, I just honestly don't know. And as a fan of Terry Pratchett I quite like the idea of it remaining a mystery".


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