Death and What Comes Next
short fiction 2002 Discworld
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780804169219 |
Synopsis
A philosopher facing death attempts to escape Death himself by invoking quantum uncertainty, arguing that he may not actually be dead in all possible worlds, and proposing an experiment involving a cat in a box to test the theory — though Death remains unconvinced by this unconventional philosophical defense.
Where it sits
- Universe: Discworld
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Terry Pratchett
Notes
- Written for the TimeHunt website. Year uncertain: 2002 (Wikipedia) vs 2004 (L-Space); 2002 registered provisionally.
Recorded uncertainty
- medium confidence on publication year: Wikipedia's Terry Pratchett bibliography gives 2002; the L-Space wiki (Discworld's own dedicated fan-maintained reference, generally reliable per this project's history) gives 2004. Both are independently-maintained, identifiable sources that genuinely disagree -- 2002 registered provisionally, per the book's own notes.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Discworld (standalone work): position 37 of 56: previous Night Watch (2002) · next The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
Sources
- https://wiki.lspace.org/Short_Story:Death_and_What_Comes_Next
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett_bibliography
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