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J. Random Lurker ([info]jrandomlurker) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-09-16 19:31:00
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Kind of want? Eoin Colfer to write new Hitchhiker's Guide book...
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/09/17/New_Hitchikers_Guide_book_penned_by_Artemis_Foul_author_

Children’s author Eoin Colfer has been given the green light by Adams’s widow Jane Belson to continue the series – with the next installment being given the title And Another Thing.

Colfer will revive the popular, yet hapless, protagonist Arthur Dent; and give new life to the chronically depressed robot Marvin, as well as the egomaniac Zaphod Beeblebrox.

When asked of his feelings toward the prospect, Colfer said he was “terrified”.
"My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series," he told the BBC.

"But on reflection I realised that this is a wonderful opportunity to work with characters I have loved since childhood and give them something of my own voice while holding on to the spirit of Douglas Adams.

"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."


I'm not sure how I feel about this.

On the one hand, the Artemis Fowl books were okay for what they were, but not THAT good.

On the other hand, ZOMG nobody can replace Douglas Adams fanboy rage!!2.1!!

On the third hand (which I grew specially for you, baby), Hitchhiker's is full of plot threads that could be really interesting to pick up.

Argh!

EDIT: better article here

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[info]bienegold
2008-09-17 03:05 am UTC (link)
Noooooooooo. Just. Argh. Yes, every series has something you wish could be continued, especially when the author passes.

Just...Let it go, man. I'm so tired of this for every single fucking thing these days. If a book ends with a question mark (not talking about HHGG) people go ballistic.

Argh. I hate it all.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2008-09-17 03:09 am UTC (link)
I appreciate that the initial reaction was 'how dare they' from the author they asked to write it.

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[info]sailorcoruscant
2008-09-17 03:21 am UTC (link)
That gives me hope that might actually not suck.

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(no subject) - [info]sailorcoruscant, 2008-09-17 03:22 am UTC

[info]agent_hyatt
2008-09-17 03:16 am UTC (link)
And on the fourth hand, Douglas Adams wanted to reverse the "every possible Earth is destroyed forever" ending in Mostly Harmless, he just died before writing/finishing the next book.

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(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2008-09-17 03:23 am UTC
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[info]kadath
2008-09-17 03:28 am UTC (link)
So Roger Zelazny, the author of the Chronicles of Amber series, died without changing his will, and the rights to his work passed to his ex-wife, who authorized a prequel trilogy. No one would do it until they finally asked John Betancourt, who is on record as saying he agreed to it so that they didn't get somebody worse.

The Amber prequels are fucking terrible.

The moral is left as an exercise for the reader.

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(no subject) - [info]yoritomo_reiko, 2008-09-17 09:03 pm UTC

[info]rennyn_alerothi
2008-09-17 03:31 am UTC (link)
...Well, if anyone could do it, it's Eoin Colfer IMHO.

*ducks thrown objects and hides.*

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(no subject) - [info]jrandomlurker, 2008-09-17 03:33 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2008-09-17 01:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2008-09-20 12:35 am UTC

[info]queencallipygos
2008-09-17 03:37 am UTC (link)
Then again, we are talking about HITCHHIKERS' here, about which it is said that the series "doesn't have a canon, it has suggestions." There have been those who thought the recent movie was a pile of fetid dingo's kidneys, but the TV show was spectacular; and those who thought both of them sucked compared to the books, and those who curled up in a little ball to get away from all three because only the original radio scripts were worth paying attention to...

I think that what your opinion is about a HITCHHIKER'S related item says more about you than the item itself. HITCHHIKER'S is like the Rorscharch of fandom.

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(no subject) - [info]scifantasy, 2008-09-17 03:44 am UTC
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[info]blue_penguin
2008-09-17 03:54 am UTC (link)
I am not so happy about this, but that's mostly because I'm not so much a fan of Eoin Colfer. Someone else writing another H2G2 book isn't a terrible idea on principle, I just wish they'd gotten someone else. (That said, I am well aware that "Why couldn't they have picked an author I like? :(" is whiny fan entitlement, and I'm sorry for inflicting it on you guys.)

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(no subject) - [info]drakyndra, 2008-09-17 07:07 am UTC
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[info]kalika_maxwell
2008-09-17 04:07 am UTC (link)
The only person I'd trust with this is Terry Pratchet. But I suppose I'll have a look at the product and make up my mind then.

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(no subject) - [info]drakyndra, 2008-09-17 07:04 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]cassildra, 2008-09-17 06:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]negativecosine, 2008-09-18 12:44 am UTC
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(no subject) - tree, 2008-09-20 09:38 am UTC

[info]sgtgeorgecarter
2008-09-17 04:21 am UTC (link)
ZOMG nobody can replace Douglas Adams fanboy rage!!2.1!!

This.

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[info]negativecosine
2008-09-17 04:42 am UTC (link)
I'm hoping he only does one. ONE. Because that is how long Colfer should be allowed to play with the same universe, in my slightly-full-of-shit humble opinion.

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(no subject) - [info]digigirl132, 2008-09-17 12:28 pm UTC
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[info]drakyndra
2008-09-17 07:03 am UTC (link)
On one hand, I never liked the way the fifth book ended, and seeing follow on would be nice.

On the other hand, Eoin Colfer's books are alright, but he's not Douglas Adams!

...I don't know how I feel about this.

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(no subject) - [info]cassildra, 2008-09-17 06:27 pm UTC

[info]dunc
2008-09-17 08:19 am UTC (link)
I'm never comfortable when they do this kind of thing with single-author series, and that goes double for something like the Hitchhiker's Guide. They were never huge favorites of mine (blasphemy!) but it just seems... disrespectful.

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[info]tarash
2008-09-17 08:36 am UTC (link)
I'd rather they leave it as it is, if only because it's been quite a long time since Adams died and the books were done with.

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[info]solle
2008-09-17 08:52 am UTC (link)
Eh. It can't be much worse that the final two books. Or the radio drama after the first season.

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[info]churri
2008-09-17 11:43 am UTC (link)
I want to be optimistic, but I'm getting flashbacks to the Dune prequels. And then the Dune sequels. And poor Frank Herbert's violated corpse.

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(no subject) - [info]hurricane, 2008-09-17 12:17 pm UTC
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[info]ayezur
2008-09-17 12:49 pm UTC (link)
The really important question is whether Lee Goldberg thinks this is fanfiction.

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[info]phosfate
2008-09-17 01:24 pm UTC (link)
I wonder how many writers turned it down before they got to Colfer.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-09-17 03:09 pm UTC (link)
NO.

I got maybe a chapter into the first Artemis Fowl book. FOUL.

This SHOULD NOT BE.

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2008-09-17 03:17 pm UTC
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[info]madam_marozi
2008-09-17 03:27 pm UTC (link)
Just think of it as fanfic by a famous person and you'll be okay. That's what I do.

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[info]monty
2008-09-17 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, yeah. When are they going to finish the sequel to the text adventure?

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gossymer
2008-09-18 02:09 am UTC (link)
The book will "make no claims for Eoin being Douglas", according to Prior. "It's not Eoin Colfer writing as Douglas Adams, as was the case with Sebastian Faulks," she said, pointing to Penguin's successful publication of Faulks's new James Bond novel Devil May Care earlier this year. "It's absolutely about him being himself – Eoin the author, but with the cast of Hitchhiker."

This I like. I just want some resolution, and while there will probably be a LOT of people that relegate Colfer's book as nothing more than fanfiction or almost!canon, I'm still interested in seeing an ending not so bleak.

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[info]frequentmouse
2008-09-18 04:50 am UTC (link)
The only way this could possibly work is for Terry Jones to stand over him with a taser and shock him every time he uses a semicolon.

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(no subject) - tree, 2008-09-20 09:32 am UTC

[info]anime_angel_ash
2008-09-18 04:16 pm UTC (link)
Oh shit.

Now, I love me some Eoin Colfer, but it seems to me that he doesn't know when to just let stuff end. The Artemis Fowl series, for instance, would have been epic if he'd ended it at book three. Then he kept going and, well...not so much.

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[info]vorpal_blade
2008-09-18 08:44 pm UTC (link)
If this were going to happen at all, wouldn't Jasper Fforde have been a much better choice? And then perhaps he could have stalled them forever and kept it from happening, because I think Fforde would have the good sense to know that even he, as good as he is, is still no Douglas Adams. Whose idiot idea was it to ask a guy whose books are merely mediocre?

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(no subject) - [info]sparkysrevenge, 2008-09-20 12:39 am UTC

  
   
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