Category Archives: Douglas Adams

And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer

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I am a huge fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I own the book, the movie and the TV series, pretty much everything except the radio series. So when I heard that there was another book in the series being released after Douglas Adam’s death and it would an original book written by someone else, I was skeptical. But I recently heard an interview with Eoin Colfer and it made the book (And Another Thing…) sound somewhat interesting. The author clearly had a decent sense of humor and I thought I’d try it out. I should have stayed with my gut instinct. The books wasn’t bad, it wasn’t horrible, it was simply boring and not Douglas Adams. I gave up after about 100 pages. So let’s see what went wrong.

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Classic Science Fiction Week: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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The question, of course, I’ve heard: Is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy a science fiction classic or is it too new. My take is that it’s been over 30 years since it was published, so that is long enough back to make it a classic. It was published only ten years after Dune, so I feel confident that it is old enough to be a classic. So, let’s see what’s so special about Galactic Hitchhiking.

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BBC working on Dirk Gently TV show

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From Bleeding Cool:

Mentioned only in passing at last year’s Hitchcon, the first* TV adaptation of Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency has now been officially announced by the BBC for their autumn/winter season. What do we know? That it’s going to screen on BBC 4 (not BBC 3 as originally planned), and that the plot will see Gently try “to solve the disappearance of a cat from an old lady’s house” – ie. it will be an adaptation of Adams’ first Gently book, at least in part. The script is by Howard Overman, creator of Misfits and Vexed, and according to his agent, the runtime is 60 minutes

H/T to IO9 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy the BBC Series

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy the BBC Series was my first introduction to Douglas Adams’ famous story. It came after the radio series and novel and plays and record, but for some of us, it was the introduction to a comic masterpiece that is as funny today as the day we first read it. PBS showed it here in the US in late 1982 and I still remember dying laughing at the comic situations. And when I found out there was a novel, I was beyond ecstatic about reading it. But does the series stand up almost 30 years later after 7 novels and a Hollywood movie?

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