New Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy Book Out Now!

Despite author Douglas Adams having died back in 2001, a brand new HitchHikers Guide To The Galxay book has just been released.

Written by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer, with the full blessing of Adam’s widow, HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy: And Another Thing… is on book shelves now.

Scifiwire recently caught up with Colfer to ask him some questions.

So, it’s not a sequel then?

“It’s kind of a little side story or a tribute story, done in the spirit of fandom. So, yeah, it’s not an attempt to try and take over HitchHiker’s or to say I’m the new Douglas Adams. It’s just another thing, a little appendiz.”

Will there be any new characters?

“A new guy, Hillman Hunter, he’s an Irish property developer/evangelist,Hillman, I suppose, is the closest to me. He’s the Irish one, although I did find myself identifying a lot with Arthur, because he’s always been Everyman. Now, where Arthur was very clipped and British, now he’s … a little bit warmer and a little bit more three-dimensional, I suppose.”

Do you try to copy the writing style of Douglas Adams?

“You’re never sure whether or not you’ve succeededYou just try to make it the best of your own brand of funny that you can, and you hope that the Hitchhiker readers will accept that as being enough, because there is no way to channel, I think, successfully the genius of Douglas Adams’ books. Either jokes are funny enough or they won’t be.”

I must admit I never thought I’d see the day when I’d get to read a brand new HitchHiker’s Guide To The Galaxy book again, it was that series that got me into writing in the first place.

I’m gonna pick up my copy this weekend…