Fafhrd on 20/9/2008 at 04:18
And Colfer isn't going into it trying to write as Douglas Adams. It's Eoin Colfer writing an Eoin Colfer novel set in the Hitchhiker's Universe (and probably with the Hitchhiker's characters).
And it can hardly turn out worse than Spider Robinson trying to write early Heinlein in Variable Star.
Aja on 20/9/2008 at 06:56
Only two books worth reading? Nah, some of the best bits of the series occured in the later ones, and the overall ending was wonderful (yeah that's right). Didn't Mostly Harmless have the whole Sandwich Maker bits? And Marvin's final fate? COME ON THOSE ARE GOOD PARTS! And Arthur had sex while flying
As for a new book, does it even matter? It's pretty easy to just not read it at this point.
D'Juhn Keep on 20/9/2008 at 07:59
Yeah, I really liked all the books. Especially everything Ford did in Mostly Harmless, that was awesome.
Thirith on 20/9/2008 at 11:03
I also like the fourth book - quite a lot, actually, because it wasn't just more of the same (book 3 felt like that to me), it had its own voice, and it actually did something with the characters.
Book 5 was too bitter and cynical for my tastes, losing the playfulness of the earlier books - but I still think that the Stavromula Beta twist is extremely well executed.
henke on 20/9/2008 at 12:04
Quote Posted by fett
How retarded can his widow be to imagine he would have liked the series to continue?
Well, she obviously didn't know him as well as angry nerds across the internet, that's for sure.
Anyway, FYI, Adams (
http://www.mattnewsome.demon.co.uk/Site/DNA_Interview.html) was considering writing a sixth H2G2 book.
Quote Posted by the man himself
Then looking back at all the ideas that were there in "Salmon of Doubt", I looked at it again about a year later and suddenly realised what it was that I'd been getting wrong, which was that these are essentially much more like Hitch-Hiker ideas and not like Dirk Gently ideas.
So, there will come a point I suspect at some point in the future where I will write a sixth Hitch-Hiker book.
Printer's Devil on 20/9/2008 at 17:48
Quote Posted by Aja
As for a new book, does it even matter? It's pretty easy to just not read it at this point.
You misunderstand the pathology of nerd rage.
Aja on 20/9/2008 at 18:31
I've read the entire series at least three or four times -- I'm no small fan -- and I have no problem ignoring this (or, as long as we're being geeks, declaring it non-canon).
Matthew on 20/9/2008 at 20:53
Or claiming they supported it all along if it turns out OK.
Sulphur on 20/9/2008 at 22:01
Highly unlikely. Maybe if she'd gotten Terry Pratchett to swing it, it'd have a chance at being moderately successful.
While this whole thing stinks like someone taking a piss on his grave, Adams isn't the first author whose cold dead corpus of work was resurrected - Isaac Asimov and JRR Tolkien's works were similarly 'extended' based on ideas they never completed.
Not that I think it's right, or anything. It's just the way people are. Whatever happens, I'm sure Adams himself, upon hearing about this if he were alive, would have smiled and gone for a good lie down in a starlit field somewhere.
He was an incredibly lazy ass that way.
demagogue on 21/9/2008 at 05:51
We don't need a new book.
What we need is a new movie!
... of an old book; the 2nd oldest actually.
But it seems that won't happen.
What has this world come to?
P.S. "The suit into which the man's body had been stuffed looked as if it's only purpose in life was to demonstrate how difficult it was to get this sort of body into a suit."
