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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. Re:I have some misgivings, but... by dawgs72 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oddly enough, there were exactly 42 comments when I first saw this article. Perhaps this might turn out well...

    /. has made it to only display "42 comments" on the main page.

  2. Re:What? by pla · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't get the hate for Christopher Tolkien.

    Not so much "hate" as "complete and total disregard".


    Without his work, we would have The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - nothing else at all.

    Acting as the executor of JRR's literary estate to publish basically-complete but unpublished works, not a problem. Writing entirely new crap "inspired" by his father, I'd rather "have The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - nothing else at all."