What has changed?

Lord Vetinari is still the perfect tyrant. Om remains a progressive and responsive god. Rincewind, as ever, is the most heroic of all cowards, and Lobsang marches on.

So what has changed? No one will ask about Mrs. Cake. Young Sam will never grow up. Granny Weatherwax will never walk proudly over black sand. Dios is satisfied. All is still; the auditors think they've won. The one day that was not today will never be tomorrow.

We knew much about Sir Terry. We knew more of him than most of us can know of one another, because he shared much more of the world behind his eyes than many ever do. We still know him, know his world, and now we know the void in which it floats, and flies, and stretches, and swims. What has changed is only what we never knew, and the loss and the longing that we feel is personal, which is not the same as important.

It's tempting to let that be an ending, but that simply Does not happen.

Now read on.