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Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book

Posted by timothy on from the can-atheists-have-ghost-writers? dept.

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."

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  1. NO NO NO by jacquesm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Enough Douglas Adams milking already, please for the love of - insert deity here - do not destroy the legacy of this great author.

    Sorry for the rant, have just watched the movie...

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  2. Re:What? by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I don't get the hate for Christopher Tolkien. Without his work, we would have The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - nothing else at all. We would know the Elder Days only through the fragments of half-forgotten legend we hear in the Third Age - occasional cryptic references to the Eldar of the West, to Numenor, to Gondolin and the swords they made for the wars with the goblins, to Beren and Lúthien... We'd never have heard the full tales.

    Christopher Tolkien isn't producing cheap cash-ins on his father's legacy. He compiled the Silmarillion, then spent decades writing and publishing detailed analyses of the reams of notes and fragmentary manuscripts that lay behind the legends, and finally tidied up the Narn i Hîn Húrin to a publishable form. And I for one am very glad that he did so.

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  3. OK I guess. by T.E.D. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suppose I don't have a problem with this, as long as its crystal clear that this is Colfer's book, set in the HHG universe. If there is any implication whatsoever that this is a new Douglas Adams book, I have a big problem with it.

    He's not pinin' for the fjords. He's dead. Let him go.