Ocupation: Author
Life: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
Birthday: April 28
Death: March 12
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.
source: Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)”, p.383, Random House
topic: Hero, Needs, Caves, Iridescent, Fungi