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Eoin Colfer will pen a sixth Hitchhiker’s Guide book. This is either mind-bogglingly great news or the very end of us all. Of course, there’s nothing stopping it from being both.
Colfer, who has been a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays, said being given the opportunity to continue the series was “like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice”. “For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world,” he added. “It is a gift from the gods. So, thank you Thor and Odin.”
The book will “make no claims for Eoin being Douglas”, according to Prior. “It’s not Eoin Colfer writing as Douglas Adams, as was the case with Sebastian Faulks,” she said, pointing to Penguin’s successful publication of Faulks’s new James Bond novel Devil May Care earlier this year. “It’s absolutely about him being himself – Eoin the author, but with the cast of Hitchhiker.”
Colfer himself is currently grappling with nerves over the quality of his addition to Adams’ oeuvre. “I feel more pressure to perform now than I ever have with my own books, and that is why I am bloody determined that this will be the best thing I have ever written,” he said. “For the first time in decades I feel the uncertainty that I last felt in my teenage years. There are people out there that really want to like this book.”
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September 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Last time I checked, Douglas Adams was dead. This is disgustings. It lowers Adams’ legacy to the callous kind of “branding” that you get with only the worst kind of pulp writers.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:31 am
So, if it’s not going to be Colfer writing as Adams, is it just a case of publisher-approved fanfic?
September 17th, 2008 at 10:30 am
this cannot happen. Did i stumble into some alternate universe where it would be imagined that something like this would benefit the fans of Douglas Adams in any way, shape or form?????
September 17th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Could be worse, I suppose. Could be Eric van Lustbader (Rubert Ludlum fill-in). But why Colfer? Why not, say, Robert Rankin? Someone who truly shares Adams’ comedic sensibilities?
September 17th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
could be worse? i can’t see how.
September 17th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I dunno….I kinda like it…then again…I’m a penguin at the moment.
And it certainly can’t be worse than the US movie verion HHGTTG…that was awful.