In case you don't know about my love of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , then, well, I suggest you go read some entries here before continuing.
30 years and still going strong...

Maybe it's Brockian Ultra-Cricket....

HHGTTG Movie update

My daughter is AWESOME

Coming eventually, to a theatre near you!

friday five: words

Wonderful Birthday gift!

Don't Panic

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: coming on DVD!!!

HHGTTG: More casting

Now comes news that Eoin Colfer , author of the Artemis Fowl books, has been tapped to write the sixth novel in the . I've read the first Artemis Fowl novel - well, actually, it was a graphic novel adaptation that I read with Noah - and I have to say that I liked it (well, again, liked the graphic novel). And the series is quite popular among the "young adult" type set, so clearly he has some ability.

Today, I had a chance to read Eoin Colfer's thoughts on the new HHGTTG book. I have to say that I'm impressed. Yes, he's taking it seriously, but it seems to me that he has a better understanding of the book than, say, some ghost-writer picked off the street might. He's read, and probably re-read, each of the books. He's grown up with the characters, like many people have. It's become a part of him. So the fact that's approaching this task and is a bit daunted by it means, to me, that he knows that it's not just the fans - of which he is one - that he needs to make happy. It's going to be his goal to make the fans AND Douglas Adams (aka DNA) happy. Oh, and Arthur Dent as well (just click and listen to the MP3 - they did a good job on that, I think). Yes, I know that Arthur isn't real, and that DNA is hitchhiking in another part of the galaxy, but I have a feeling that, if done right, this (hopefully final) novel will be something akin to what the man himself had planned.

I just wonder if Eoin has plenty of baths and other bits of procrastinating planned (for those that don't know, DNA was famous for taking baths as one of many ways of procrastinating). It seems to me that if the book is going to be written properly, it should be written by a rather rushed - and pruny - author.