Post by Samael on Sept 17, 2008 10:50:20 GMT
From Daily Telegraph:
New Hitchhiker's book seven years after death of Douglas Adams
A children's writer has been commissioned to write the first new instalment to the best-selling Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series since the death of its author.
Eoin Colfer, the children's author, has been commissioned to write the first new instalment of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker books
Douglas Adams wrote his fifth and final Hitchhiker's book, Mostly Harmless, 16 years ago. He died of heart failure in 2001 aged 49.
Now his widow, Jane Belson, has approved a plan by publisher Penguin to resurrect the hapless Arthur Dent in a sixth book, entitled And Another Thing...
The novel will be written by Eoin Colfer, best known for Artemis Fowl, about a teenage criminal mastermind. The series has sold more than 18 million copies.
Colfer, 43, was a primary school teacher in Ireland before he secured the largest ever advance for a children's novel by an unknown author.
He said he was "terrified" by the prospect of creating a new Hitchhiker book almost a quarter of a century after being introduced to what he described as a "slice of satirical genius" in his late teens.
He said: "I feel more pressure to perform now than I ever have with my own books, and that is why I am bloody determined that this will be the best thing I have ever written."
"Being given the chance to write this book is like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice."
Adams's widow Belson said she was "delighted" that Colfer had agreed to the project.
Around 16 million copies of Adams's Hitchhiker books have been sold around the world, translated into 35 languages.
He had wanted a sixth Hitchhiker book, saying once: "Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number."
Great or What? Eoin, even though he has a different style to Adams, did a fantastic job with the Artemis Fowl series, so either way the book will be good. I reckon there is a 60% chance of him doing the series justice, 35% chance of it just being a good book, and a 5% chance of utter failure.
I'm interested on how Dent will survive being on the planet when it blows up...
New Hitchhiker's book seven years after death of Douglas Adams
A children's writer has been commissioned to write the first new instalment to the best-selling Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series since the death of its author.
Eoin Colfer, the children's author, has been commissioned to write the first new instalment of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker books
Douglas Adams wrote his fifth and final Hitchhiker's book, Mostly Harmless, 16 years ago. He died of heart failure in 2001 aged 49.
Now his widow, Jane Belson, has approved a plan by publisher Penguin to resurrect the hapless Arthur Dent in a sixth book, entitled And Another Thing...
The novel will be written by Eoin Colfer, best known for Artemis Fowl, about a teenage criminal mastermind. The series has sold more than 18 million copies.
Colfer, 43, was a primary school teacher in Ireland before he secured the largest ever advance for a children's novel by an unknown author.
He said he was "terrified" by the prospect of creating a new Hitchhiker book almost a quarter of a century after being introduced to what he described as a "slice of satirical genius" in his late teens.
He said: "I feel more pressure to perform now than I ever have with my own books, and that is why I am bloody determined that this will be the best thing I have ever written."
"Being given the chance to write this book is like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice."
Adams's widow Belson said she was "delighted" that Colfer had agreed to the project.
Around 16 million copies of Adams's Hitchhiker books have been sold around the world, translated into 35 languages.
He had wanted a sixth Hitchhiker book, saying once: "Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number."
Great or What? Eoin, even though he has a different style to Adams, did a fantastic job with the Artemis Fowl series, so either way the book will be good. I reckon there is a 60% chance of him doing the series justice, 35% chance of it just being a good book, and a 5% chance of utter failure.
I'm interested on how Dent will survive being on the planet when it blows up...
