You may have heard that Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld books, recently learned he had early-onset Alzheimer’s.
A couple of days ago, he gave the UK’s Alzheimer’s charity a half a million UKP donation. When Pat Cadigan, an expat American science fiction writer living in the UK, heard about that she kicked in a few pounds in honor of Pratchett’s donation, mentioned it on her Live Journal, and asked other fans and writers to follow suit.
If you know science fiction fandom, these things snowball quickly, and now there’s a Match it for Pratchett! campaign.
In the US, you can give to the Alzheimer’s Association.
In the UK, give to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.
When you make your donation, let them know it’s in honor of Terry Pratchett, or a friend or relative with Alzheimer’s.
If you make your living off your brain, Alzheimer’s is damn scary, and like Mr. Pratchett said, I’d eat the neither regions of a dead rodent if it would keep that particular Death from tapping my shoulder.
