The author on why he has no plans to quit.

“Sometimes I wonder, Why am I doing it?" Sir Terry Pratchett tells SFX . "Sometimes I think, Why don’t I just💙 go and have some fun?"

Even though Raising Steam , the 40th novel (yes, 40th !) in Pratchett's Discworld se⛦ries is now in bookshops, the legendary author says he’s not ready𝓡 for retirement just yet.

What‘s stopping him from hanging up his pen? A good idea fo✃r a bo꧟ok it seems. “Some part of me is telling me that there is no one who will actually say, apart from my agent actually, that I shouldn’t do it, but suddenly you think, ‘I must do another book for next year!’ A little voice says ‘You don’t really have to if it’s going to be a difficulty.’ On the other hand, if I find a really snazzy plot, that will send me on fire and away we go.”

"Don&𝄹rsquo;t worry,” he jokes. “I don’t fancy dying yet.&rꦑdquo;

Story by Chloe Haynes

Raising Steam is out now from Transworld.

Read more of our exclusive interview with Sir Terry Pratchett in SFX 242, on sale Wednesday 13 November.