Terry Pratchett: The Journalist of the Impossible The literary landscape of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is marked by few figures as prolific, distinct, and culturally resonant as Sir Terry Pratchett. An author whose career spanned five decades and resulted in over fifty bestselling novels, Pratchett is best known for the Discworld  series—a satirical fantasy sequence set on a flat planet balanced on the backs of four giant elephants, which in turn stand on the cara