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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
12th OCTOBER 2009 - 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HITCHHIKER'S
GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
AND GLOBAL PUBLICATION OF
THE SIXTH BOOK IN THE SERIES
As previously announced, Penguin is to publish And Another Thing, the
6th novel in the ever-more increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, by international best-selling children's
writer, Eoin Colfer. Publication has been set for Monday 12th October
09, which is also the 30th anniversary of publication of the first book
in the late Douglas Adams' phenomenally successful series.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy started life as a radio series in
1978 and subsequently became five best-selling novels, the first being
published in paperback by Pan Books on 12th October 1979. It was an
instant hit, reaching number one in the bestseller charts two weeks
after publication and went on to be translated into over 35 languages.
By 2000 it had sold over 14 million copies worldwide. It was also remade
as a Bafta-winning TV series, dramatized for the West End stage and made
in to a film starring Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, John Malkowich and
many more. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was the first genuinely
successful attempt to combine science fiction with comedy and inspired a
whole new genre of Science Fiction humour, Red Dwarf being just one
example.
Many ideas from Hitchhiker's have become cultural currency notably
phrases such as 'life, don't talk to me about life' and 'life, the
universe and everything' but the most celebrated element of the entire
Hitchhiker's saga is the idea that there is a single, definitive answer
to all the questions of the universe and that it is the number 42. It
has become a part of the cultural Zeitgeist. Actor and writer, Sanjeev
Baskhar, recently noted on Desert Island Discs that he was a huge fan of
Hitchhiker's hence the reason for giving his hit TV chat show the name
The Kumars at No. 42.
Simultaneous global publication of And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer will
take place on the 30th anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy. So far rights have been sold to Hyperion in the US and to other
prominent publishers in Germany, Italy, France, Denmark, Sweden and
Finland.
Alex Clarke, Editorial Director, Penguin UK, said 'I have been talking
to Eoin, who tells us he is busy working out just how it is he is going
to bring back Arthur, Ford and Trillian from the dead. We are all hugely
looking forward to the publishing event of 2009.'
Continues . . .
Since the announcement that Eoin Colfer is to continue the Hitchhiker
series Artemis Fowl and Hitchhiker fan forums have been buzzing with a
mixture of eager anticipation and consternation. Troublerocks on
eoincolfer.com says, 'I love Hitchhiker's. I'm glad Eoin is doing it.
It's nice to know a great author we know will continue the GttG books.'
Scratch on the Douglas Adams Continuum forum says, 'Surely this can't
be? Sounds ghastly . . . This whole affair makes me feel like my
underpants are made out of wood' while Duke of Dunstable says, 'I
suppose I am appalledly interested.'
Notes:
Eoin Colfer and Simon Jones, the original voice of Arthur Dent in The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, can be heard talking
about publication of And Another Thing at www.penguin.co.uk/eoincolfer
and www.penguin.co.uk/simonjones.
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