The winner of this week’s “Ohmigodthat’sincrediblycool” award is none other than Sir Terry Pratchett–who, on gaining his knighthood, went off and made a sword. Out of stars.
Alright, meteorites. And some other stuff.
But still… Made. A. Sword.
Isn’t it shiny?
The author, 62, who has sold about 65 million copies of his books, which include the Discworld series, said: “Most of my life I’ve been producing stuff which is intangible and so it’s amazing the achievement you feel when you have made something which is really real.”
I think my favourite part of this story is not that he’s thrown a few bits of meteorite in there (although I do love the suggestion he’s got hundreds of them cluttering up the house, rather like we have dust bunnies at Morgan Towers) but that he smelted the ore himself in a lo-fi kiln, the way it would have been done in the days it was believed swords had souls.
I don’t know about all the others, but I’m pretty certain that sword has soul to spare.
kaisavage
/ September 23, 2010Isn’t he a beautiful old man.
loummorgan
/ September 23, 2010Great idea, isn’t it? How brilliant to be in the position to be able to do something like that – and to actually go and *do it*.