Let ’s be honest here : the Hitchhiker ’s Guide To The Galaxy was a wonderful radio receiver show , some 30 yr ago . It managed to survive the transformation into a span of decent books and a TV show , more or less entire . Everything since then has been less and less amusing , like a remain firm - up comical who start off funny but stayed on stage , feeding bottle in handwriting , long after the jokes ran out . And now another author is exit to crank out a 6th Hitchhiker ’s Word for hard cash ? Maybe it ’s at long last time to panic . The lucky Douglas Adams resurrector will be Eoin Colfer , author of the Artemis Fowl novels , which I have n’t take but which sound extremely “ nervy ” and nowhere near as subversive as the original HG2 G series was . Colfer ’s novel , … And Another Thing , is due out in October 2009 , and sounds as though it ’ll admit Arthur Dent , Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Paranoid Android , among all the other fave characters . Given that the article declare this new piece of Hitchhiker ’s standoff - in product mentions that Adams regret not terminate the saga on a more “ pollyannaish ” note , I ’m judge you’re able to expect a bright happy end . And Colfer says he wants to catch Adams ’ style while adding some of his own voice . I ’m not really as horror-struck as I sound by this business sector venture , because I plan to disregard it as much as possible . The same way I have any of the James Bond novel not written by Ian Fleming ( with the potential exception of Kingsley Amis ’ Bond novel . ) I ’m only mildly worried that other people wo n’t keep up my example , and I ’ll be get wind about this raw Hitchhiker’s - related consumer particular endlessly a twelvemonth from now . Bottom line , though : if Adams could n’t retake the thaumaturgy of that one time and place , in the BBC in the late seventies , then what promise does this other guy have ? [ Timesvia Timelordthewhite ]
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