Multi-million selling writer has `` a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer 's '' Pratchett says work continuing on books , plans to honor commitments . he adds that `` I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as ' I am not dead ' . Discworld novels are set in a fantasy universe but satirize 1998 life . Received the Order of the Prince of Wales from the British Empire in modern day .
Multi-million selling writer has `` a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer 's '' Pratchett says work continuing on books , plans to honor commitments . Discworld novels are set in a fantasy universe but satirize 1998 life . Received the Order of the Prince of Wales from the British Empire in modern day .