I am extra-super excited about the A.V. Club's INVENTORY collection given my obsession with lists
Running second to the most important book ever: Eoin Colfer's AND ANOTHER THING... is the first authorized sequel to Douglas Adams' HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series about reluctant space traveler Arthur Dent (and a lot of other stuff). The last volume Adams published was MOSTLY HARMLESS in 1992; he died in 2001. Colfer is best known as the author of the ARTEMIS FOWL series, which may mean more to you than it does to me, but describes himself as a huge Douglas Adams fan. So we'll see.
So THE SALMON OF DOUBT doesn't count?
ReplyDeleteI never read THE SALMON OF DOUBT, so maybe it doesn't make any sense and shouldn't count as part of the Hitchhiker's series, just as I wouldn't really count THE ECONOMIC MANUSCRIPTS OF 1844 as part of Karl Marx's canon. Really, sometimes you should just leave unpublished notes in drawers.
The little looking I did suggested that THE SALMON OF DOUBT does not, in fact, "count" among Adams fans. I read it about a year after it came out, but I can't remember much of it, so I couldn't say where I would fall on that.
ReplyDeleteAs my literary executor, you should get comfortable with the idea of opening a lot of drawers.
I trust that you will learn from Marx's experience and burn everything you don't really want published, so that I can then just go ahead and publish everything I can find.
ReplyDeleteI read half of ...AND ANOTHER THING last week, because the promotional copy my mom's store got was only half the book. It was fun and pretty well-realized, if maybe a little slower than the original 4 (I realized upon starting this one that I never read number 5, so I can't comment there). Hard to say whether it feels more like a tribute to the series or part of the thing itself.
ReplyDeleteThey only sent you half the book, Marjorie? That's... one way to save money on publicity.
ReplyDeleteI guess they wanted to leave us on a cliffhanger? Or Colfer wasn't done with it yet? Or they thought fans would be bartering for the advance copies if it were the entire book? For a while they stopped issuing Stephen King ARCs entirely for that reason.
ReplyDeleteI've been looking forward to Inventory's release for a while. Though I know people who write for some pretty great publications, the thought that some people earn their living writing stuff like this is almost too awesome to contemplate.
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