Death and What Comes Next
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{{Short description|Short story by Terry Pratchett}}
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| series = Discworld
4th short story
| genre = Fantasy
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: Death
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"Death and What Comes Next" is a fantasy short story by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series. It tells the story of a discussion between Death and a philosopher, in which the philosopher attempts to use the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics to argue that death is not a certainty.
The story was written in 2002 for the now-defunct online puzzle game TimeHunt and the text contains a hidden word puzzle, also devised by Pratchett, which provided a codeword for the game.
Like "Theatre of Cruelty", another of his short stories, Pratchett allowed it to be put on the L-Space Web.
==See also==
External links
- {{isfdb title|901960}}
- [http://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/ The "Death and What Comes Next" L-Space page] including various translations
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{{succession box | before = Thief of Time | title = 6th Death Story | years=Published in 2001 | after = None}}
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