Crunch! (the sequel to Thud!)

Terry Pratchett's unpublished works crushed by steamroller
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-41093066

According to Wikipedia, "Pratchett's daughter is the current custodian of the Discworld franchise, and has stated on several occasions that she has no plans to publish any of her father's unfinished work, or to continue the Discworld on her own." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett#Unfinished_texts

So I guess somehow this plan from 2012 went awry: https://www.tor.com/2012/11/14/terry-pratchett-reveals-he-will-hand-off-discworl...

>2 Cecrow: I think there was a wishful translation in the Tor article NOT in the New Statesman. Sir Terry said he was handing the world off to his daughter, yet. And he said he'd be happy with her writing more books in the world. He didn't say she WOULD be continuing them. Only that she was a primary writer on the new The Watch BBC series.

Good topic title!

As sad as I am that we will get no more books from Sir Pterry, I think this was the right choice. In too many cases, books finished posthumously by other authors are lacking. Rhianna deserves to write her own work in her own voice, not try to imitate her father.

I agree that destroying them is better than handing them off to someone else. I do think it might have been nice, though, if they could have mined some of it for something similar to what they did with Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt... giving us a glimpse of what might have been, rather than feeling the need to finish it.

Pratchett obviously had a lot more time to work through how he wanted his legacy to be handled, though, so good on them for honoring his wishes.