There is to be a new Hitchhiker book!!!!!!

Yay!!! 42!! ;)

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

"trilogy" - very funny!

Not having read the Artemis Fowl books yet, I withhold judgment on this. But I will admit to a certain skepticism - it seems unlikely that the new book will be acceptable as part of the series. I say this for multiple reasons, based on a premise: either the book will attempt to recreate the tone of the original, or it will depart from it to some degree.

If Colfer writes to imitate Adams:
* even a given author can have difficulty recreating the tone and "feel" of a classic that he himself wrote years before, much less another author. People change over the years, and how they write changes in sync. So it's difficult to recapture the old style.
* even when authors are able to imitate another author's style, the very fact that the reader knows that it is a different author lends a critical eye to the prose, predisposing him to say "Well, that was good, but it wasn't like the original, was it?" Effectively, the author of the new material has to write something that embodies the spirit of the original author's work more than the original author ever did...and that's a tall order!
* this is made especially difficult when a particular book (or books) are so well-known that they've become effectively canonized. For the people who have studied the original text in depth, possibly having memorized portions thereof, an attempt to continue will seem like sacrilege. That's a tough hurdle.

If Colfer doesn't write to fully imitate Adams, then the hue and cry that will arise should be obvious.

I'm excited to hear about this next book.
The Artimis Fowl books have differences from the Hitchhicher's Guide to the Galaxy triolgy. Eoin Colfer has not published a grown up/adult book before but has had many successful children's and young adult books such as the Artimis Fowl series, The Supernaturalist and Benny and Omar, all of which I enjoyed. I can't wait to see how he writes for an adult audience.

oh my god!!!! my mother especially (:P) will love this!!!!

btw, whats its name????

It's called "And Another Thing"

I can't say I'm really happy...Douglas Adams was one in a million, and if you've read any of Colfer's books -I have- you'll know that he probably isn't capable of replicating Douglas Adams' unbelievably hilarious writing style.

Sometimes, when the author has died, certain books should be left alone.

This is ridiculous! Douglas Adams 'was' the hitchhikers guide, he's dead so there should be no more books. No one else will be able to come close to doing the 'Trilogy' justice. Its all a very sad money making ploy if you ask me. I hate this sort of thing :(

Ugh. I love Artemis Fowl, and I love Hitchhikers, but I really don't think that Eoin Colfer will do the rest of the books justice. I just hope that he won't *entirely* ruin the 'trilogy'...

Douglas Adams is the only one capable of HGttG wit and humor, but the smartness and randomness I believe will continue. I'm still not exactly happy though