And Another Thing...: Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) - Softcover

Colfer, Eoin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401310303 ISBN 13: 9781401310301

Publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets, 2010

Synopsis

And Another Thing ... will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling children's writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Douglas Adams himself once said, 'I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book. Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number.' Belson said of Eoin Colfer, 'I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new.' Colfer, a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays, said, 'Being given the chance to write this book is 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.' Prepare to be amazed...

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Review:

"I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number." -- Douglas Adams

"My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series. But on reflection I realised that this is a wonderful opportunity to work with characters I have loved since childhood and give them something of my own voice while holding onto the spirit of Douglas Adams and not laying a single finger on his five books." -- Eoin Colfer

From the Back Cover:

'A triumph, fabulous. Colfer has given us a delight' Observer

'I haven't read anything in a long time that made me laugh as much ...' The Times

Arthur Dent led a perfectly ordinary, uneventful life until the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hurled him deep into outer space. Now he's convinced a cruelly indifferent universe is out to get him.

And who can blame him?

His life is about to collide with a pantheon of unemployed gods, a lovestruck green alien, a very irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese. If, that is, everyone's favourite renegade Galactic President can get him off planet Earth before it is destroyed . . . again.

'Chock-full of fanciful, inventive one-liners and asides, brimming with a burning sense of the ridiculousness of life.' Independent on Sunday

'The best post-mortem impersonation I have ever read' Mark Lawson, Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1401310303
• ISBN 13: 9781401310301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288