When he spoke at CMU in 99, he said that he was working on the 3rd Dirk Gently Book (Salmon of Doubt) when it hit him that it would work better as a Hitchhikers book, so he was rewriting it to be the 6th book of the trilogy.
A sad day indeed. He was a great author, and a real nice guy. (He sat wearily through hundreds of geeks wanting his autograph, smiling the whole time.)
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When he spoke at CMU in 99, he said that he was working on the 3rd Dirk Gently Book (Salmon of Doubt) when it hit him that it would work better as a Hitchhikers book, so he was rewriting it to be the 6th book of the trilogy. A sad day indeed. He was a great author, and a real nice guy. (He sat wearily through hundreds of geeks wanting his autograph, smiling the whole time.)