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THIS IS FUCKING COOL!

Douglas Adams’s increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy is to be extended to six titles, after Adams’s widow Jane Belson sanctioned a project which will see children’s author Eoin Colfer taking up the story.

Eoin Colfer is great. The Hitchhiker’s Guide is great. The combination could be really, really great!!! Even if I doubt that it would reach Adams‘ genius.

But obviously, and that’s the best thing about it, Colfer as well as the publishers have the right attitude here:

Colfer, who has been a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays, said being given the opportunity to continue the series was “like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice”.

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The book will “make no claims for Eoin being Douglas”, according to Prior. “It’s not Eoin Colfer writing as Douglas Adams, (…) It’s absolutely about him being himself – Eoin the author, but with the cast of Hitchhiker.”

Colfer himself is currently grappling with nerves over the quality of his addition to Adams’ oeuvre. “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,” he said. “For the first time in decades I feel the uncertainty that I last felt in my teenage years. There are people out there that really want to like this book.”

You’re damn right, there are – see me dance? See me jump? Hear me squeal?

I need to go do something, I’m completely out of sorts… in a good way.