And another thing...

**farmersboy** · 17th September 2008, 12:13 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm

No. Just plain no - Douglas Adams is now the late Douglas Adams, so how can someone else write a book for him? It's not the characters that define Hitchhikers, it was Adams' warped brain. What next, someone writing the new Shakespeare play? War and Peace: The Sequel?

**Mongrel** · 17th September 2008, 12:21 PM

I'm in two minds about this;

Nearly all of the stuff written by another author for an existing series is rubbish

but

I really like Eoin Colfers work...

I'll probably buy it just to see

**farmersboy** · 17th September 2008, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Mongrel

I'll probably buy it just to see

I suspect I will as well...but I will fight the temptation.

**Mongrel** · 17th September 2008, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by farmersboy

I suspect I will as well...but I will fight the temptation.

Have you read the "Artemis Fowl" books? Whilst they are in the young adult section they're fun reads

**Jack of Kent** · 17th September 2008, 02:29 PM

I often think that someone other than Douglas Adams also wrote the final two or three books in HGTTG series...

**farmersboy** · 17th September 2008, 02:35 PM

They'll get added to the list, but I have a bit of a backlog to read through yet - I've had a new Pratchett ('Nation') untouched for 4 days now, which is unheard of!

**Mulder** · 17th September 2008, 03:35 PM

Publishers make money by selling books. Any book that sells is good, to a publisher, whether it's the 'continuation' of a best selling dead author's work, books that tell you how to live your life, books 'by' celebrities, books tied into TV series, New Age books, etc, etc. If it sells, it's worth publishing!