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Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book
clickety6 writes "Eoin Colfer, the Irish author of a number of books (including the popular children's book series 'Artemis Fowl'), has been directly approached by Douglas Adam's widow, Jane Belson, to write a sixth book to continue the (even more) increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy."
Douglas Adams himself mentioned that Mostly Harmless was too dark and wanted the series to finish on a more upbeat note (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly_Harmless#Adams_on_Mostly_Harmless ). So it is quite plausible to believe that his widow would want to make her husband's wish true.
Not going to happen. A few fragments of code are all that exist, and there's no commercial market for such games in 2008, and both Infocom and Douglas Adams are dead. Write it yourself; there's a healthy subculture of interactive fiction writing even today, and the Inform language is actually not at all bad, all things considered.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Are you suggesting one of them should have been chosen as the writer, or that they should be hiring writers to continue their relatives' work?
He's saying that it's a horrible idea, and he's using those as examples why.
Also, quoth wikipedia: CJRT drew the original LOTR maps, so he possessed at least a passing familiarity with the work in the eyes of his father.
semantics are everything!
Are you refering to the Disney movie that Doglas Adams wrote the screenplay for?
The BBC did try this with the original HHGTTG game. Give it a go here
Er, Floyd died in Planetfall, as you cradled him in your arms and recited his favourite poem, the Ballad of the Star-Crossed Miner.
O, they ruled the solar system
Near ten thousand years before
In their single starcrossed scout ships
Mining ast'roids, spinning lore.
Then one true courageous miner
Spied a spaceship from the stars
Boarded he that alien liner
Out beyond the orb of Mars.
Yes, that ship was filled with danger
Mighty monsters barred his way
Yet he solved the alien myst'ries
Mining quite a lode that day.
O, they ruled the solar system
Near ten thousand years before
'Til one brave advent'rous spirit
Brought that mighty ship to shore.
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