HHGG without the DNA?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:33 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/arts/ ... T_BRF.html

Fans of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will finally get a new installment of the cult science-fiction series, Agence France-Presse reported. The Irish author Eoin Colfer, best known for his children’s novels, the Artemis Fowl books, has been tapped to write the sixth book in the “Hitchhiker’s” series. Mr. Colfer has received the approval of Jane Belson, the widow of the original author, Douglas Adams, who died in 2001. He started writing the series for BBC Radio in the late 1970s and finished his last installment, “Mostly Harmless,” in 1992. Mr. Colfer will continue the adventures of Arthur Dent through the cosmos in the new book, to be titled “And Another Thing ...” Around 16 million copies of the books have been sold around the world and translated into 35 languages. “And Another Thing ...” is scheduled for publication by Hyperion Adult in the United States in October 2009.

Yeah, every once in a while I get these dumb longings to finish Effinger's 4th Budayeen book. (GAE only wrote the first two chapters, and they are brilliant.) Then I read something like that, and I am overwhelmingly thrown back into reality, which is me working on my own stuff.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:54 pm

I want more Dirk Gently.

I demand that Dirk Gently appear in another book.

For that matter, if people are going to start carrying on others' works, More Travis McGee and , hell, more Huckleberry.

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:07 am

I would go back in TIME and murder someone to get a new Dirk Gently book.

O. Henry · Post by **O. Henry** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:08 am

The person you must go back and kill...

.... is DOUGLAS NOEL ADAMS!!!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:09 am

GOD. DAMN. YOU. OoooOOOOOOoOOo!!!!!!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:10 am

The b-side response was:

MORE LIKE NOOOOOOOOOOOO HENRY!

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:19 am

Will the new HHGG book be as good as the last? Somehow I doubt it. I have this weak herbal tea feeling about the quality.

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:25 pm

I thought "Mostly Harmless" was terrible, so I cannot help you here, friend Varkus.