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And Another Thing...
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Author Eoin Colfer
Country U.k.
United States
Language English
Series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way
Genre Comic science fiction
Publisher Penguin Books, Hyperion Books

Publication engagement

 12 October 2009
ISBN 978-1-4013-2358-v
Preceded by Mostly Harmless

And Some other Thing... is the sixth and final installment of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker'south Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of half-dozen books". The book, written past Eoin Colfer (author of the Artemis Fowl series) was published on the thirtieth anniversary of the first volume, 12 October 2009, in hardback. It was published by Penguin Books in the UK and past Hyperion Books in the US. Colfer was given permission to write the book past Adams' widow Jane Belson.[1]

Different the previous Hitchhiker'south sequels, the title is not a quotation from the first novel, just taken from the third affiliate of And so Long, and Thank you for All the Fish,[2] where it appears in the post-obit passage:

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder in that location was now grumbled over more afar hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'due south lost the argument.

Background [edit]

After writing v Hitchhiker books, Adams had felt the demand to continue the story: "I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book...",[3] and "People accept said, quite rightly, that Mostly Harmless is a very bleak book. I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, and so five seems to be a wrong kind of number; six is a better kind of number."[four] [5]

In referring to the Dirk Gently book he was so working on, Adams said, "A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Dubiety actually wasn't working." Adams had planned on "salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework... and for old time's sake I may call information technology The Salmon of Incertitude."[six] [7] However, Adams died in 2001 without having written the 6th book.

Plot summary [edit]

And Some other Thing... starts where Mostly Harmless ends, with Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Arthur and Trillian'south daughter Random continuing inside Gild Beta, while the Earth is virtually to be destroyed by the Vogons. They are rescued by Zaphod Beeblebrox and the Heart of Golden. During a debate, Ford accidentally freezes Left Brain (Zaphod'south second head who has been running the ship) and it seems they are doomed, until an immortal named Wowbagger brings them to safety. Angered by Wowbagger's insults, Zaphod promises to get Wowbagger killed, an idea to which Wowbagger, tired of immortality, has no objection; and so the group sets off in search of Thor, to encounter if he can kill Wowbagger.

Meanwhile, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, assigned to destroy all humans, hears rumours of a colony of Earthmen, and he sets off to destroy them, while Arthur attempts to get Wowbagger to stop the Vogons.

On the Globe colony Nano, the excessively stereotypical Irish leader Hillman Hunter is seeking applicants to be the planet's god, who would keep Hillman in accuse due to divine providence. Meanwhile, Prostetnic Jeltz's son, Constant Mown, is having rather "un-Vogonly" thoughts, including an enjoyment of poetry and sympathy for humans. Wowbagger and Random first arguing, and Wowbagger drugs and imprisons Random. Afterwards, Trillian and Wowbagger fight, simply they share a kiss at the end of the argument. Random is less than impressed with her mother's and Wowbagger's actions, and complains about it to Ford. During this conversation, Random steals Ford'south company credit menu.

Back on Asgard, Zaphod has managed to gain access to Valhalla and finds his old acquaintance Thor. After some negotiations, Thor agrees to aid Zaphod by condign Nano'due south god and killing Wowbagger.

Things on Nano are not going as planned, and Hillman is struggling to find his god and go on lodge among his ain populace, also as trying to control the Magratheans who built the planet. Hillman recalls creating a cult for the rich, which preached of a coming apocalypse, only for the Grebulons to create such an apocalypse. Having received an offer from Zaphod, Hillman and his followers relocated to their "haven", the planet Nano. Notwithstanding, many of the staff abandoned their rich employers and several rival religious groups also settled on the planet, the most prominent of these existence the cheese-worshiping Tyromancers, led by Aseed. The Tyromancers and the Nanites enter into a state of war, and during one of the state of war's battles, the Heart of Gold and Thor all of a sudden go far.

Wowbagger's ship lands on Nano and is met by the Tyromancers. Zaphod negotiates for Thor to be Nano's god and reveals that Aseed and Hillman are actually the aforementioned being from parallel universes, both of whom fabricated deals with Zaphod. It is revealed that this is what brought him to World, saving Arthur and the rest. With Wowbagger representing the Tyromancers for testify and Thor representing the Nanites, the ii run into in boxing.

The battle begins, merely Thor is unable to win because Wowbagger does not die, fifty-fifty when hitting with the hammer Mjöllnir. A package for Random arrives through interstellar freight, containing the rubber bands involved in Wowbagger'south condign immortal, which Random believes may be able to hurt him. Using Mjöllnir, enhanced with the safe bands, Thor sends Wowbagger into the air.

The Vogons approach with the intent of destroying Nano. Thor is able to deflect the Vogon missiles, only is seemingly killed by an experimental weapon called QUEST. Constant Mown disables the Vogon gunner, and uses the argument that their orders are to kill Earthlings and not Nanites (legally two singled-out groups, with the latter being taxpaying citizens). Prostetnic Jeltz agrees to his argument, and is proud of his son's power to follow law and hierarchy. Zaphod and Hillman tell the people that Thor is Nano'due south martyr and that all commands he will issue shall henceforth come up from Hillman, only for Hillman to exist sliced in two by a piece of flop debris.

Luckily, Hillman's decease is curt, as the Center of Gold medical bay restores him to total health, with only 1 pocket-sized alter – he now has hooves rather than feet. Fifty-fifty though he now has control over the populace, he grows displeased upon finding himself swamped with civic paperwork. Zaphod sets off with Left Brain to piece of work on his re-election campaign, and Ford has decided to stay behind and sample the best Nano has to offering, and then he can write fabric for the Guide. Upwardly in space, a very much live Thor is pleased to learn of his ascension back to fame, and the success of his "martyrdom" trick. Arthur finds the beach from his construct. To his displeasure, he finds that Vogons are going to destroy it.

Announcement [edit]

The proclamation of And Another Thing… was made on 16 September 2008. Although Colfer spoke of "semi-outrage" at the initial thought of some other author contributing to the series, he came to regard the book as "a wonderful opportunity to work with characters I have loved since childhood and give them something of my own voice while holding on to the spirit of Douglas Adams".[1] Adams' widow, Jane Belson, said that she "could non call back of a better person to send Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new" and gave the project her full support.[1]

When the proclamation was made on the BBC Radio four's news show The Today Plan, a special sketch starring Simon Jones as Arthur Paring (whom he played in the radio and television serial) was broadcast. In it, Arthur was aroused at the news that he had been "brought dorsum from the dead".[8]

A reception was held at the Penguin offices in London on 9 March 2009 to launch the cover of the volume and announce the related marketing activity which included the BBC, with their CDs of the radio series, and Pan with their reissues of the start five books of the series.[9] As function of the book's promotion, a website collected Twitter-mode messages from visitors, to be "transmitted into deep space" on the day of the book's launch.[10]

Waterstones' science-fiction buyer Michael Rowley described the match of Colfer and Hitchhiker's as "an inspired combination", although some Hitchhiker's fans expressed regret that "a complete unique serial tin't remain untouched" and hoped Colfer would non "completely ruin the books".[eleven]

Radio adaptation [edit]

And Another Affair... was adapted and abridged for BBC Radio 4's Volume at Bedtime, in x parts, broadcast from 12–23 October 2009. It was abridged past Penny Leicester, read past Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz as the vocalization of The Guide, and produced past Heather Larmour.[12] [13] The parts are about half the size of a regular "fit" of the more formal radio adaptations of the other books, totalling about five fits in comparison, but each role has its own brusque title.[14]

A total cast radio accommodation under the title The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way: The Hexagonal Stage and adapted from And Some other Thing... , with unpublished Hitchhiker material by Douglas Adams, was announced in October 2017 past the BBC as the sixth series of Hitchhiker'south Guide. The first episode of the series was broadcast on 8 March 2018 and the complete series was released commercially both on CD and via audio download by Audible.com on xix April 2018.[15]

Audio book [edit]

The audio book version is read by Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in the radio and television receiver series as well every bit a short made past BBC Radio 4 to celebrate the original announcement of the book.[8] The recording is 10 hours and twenty one minutes in length and is the kickoff Hitchhikers sound book starring Jones. The others were read by Stephen Moore (known for playing Marvin in the radio series and television set series, and did recordings for all books except By and large Harmless), Douglas Adams, Martin Freeman (who had played Arthur in the 2005 film)[16] and Stephen Fry (known for being the voice of The Guide in the 2005 film, the voice of Murray Bost Henson in The Quandary Phase of the radio series, and a close friend of Adams).

Reception [edit]

The volume received mixed reviews from both readers and critics. Reviewing the book in The Guardian, Mark Lawson described Colfer'south writing equally "the best post-mortem impersonation I have always read" and considered the book "a perfectly calculated adaptation".[17] Curtis Silverish of Wired besides praised the volume equally a continuation of Adams' story that simply suffered slightly from some jokes being too clichéd.[18] Other positive reviews came from The Times, where Lisa Tuttle described information technology as "a fine job", and from Euan Ferguson of The Observer, who wrote that "Colfer has pulled off the near-impossible."[19]

Other reviews were more than negative. Charlie Jane Anders, having read the first half of the volume, described it every bit "more than of the same" only without leaving a unique impression of its ain, with the humor falling "incredibly flat".[20] Private Eye summed it up as a "more often than not humourless ... lame re-animation".[21]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c "New Hitchhiker's author announced". BBC. 16 September 2008. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
  2. ^ So Long, and Cheers for All the Fish. ISBN0-345-39183-seven.
  3. ^ "Children'southward author to write sixth instalment of Hitchhiker series - News, Books". The Independent. London. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 2 September 2009.
  4. ^ Flood, Alison (17 September 2008). "Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker'south Guide book | Books". The Guardian. London. Retrieved ii September 2009.
  5. ^ Matt Newsome. "Matt Newsome's 1998 interview with Douglas Adams". Mattnewsome.co.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2009.
  6. ^ "The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams - Reviews, Books". The Independent. London. 10 May 2002. Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved ii September 2009.
  7. ^ "Encompass Stories: Douglas Adams, Narnia Chronicles, Something like a House - Features, Books". The Independent. London. v January 2002. Archived from the original on 1 August 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2009.
  8. ^ a b "And another matter..." BBC - The Today Programme. 17 September 2008. Archived from the original on twenty September 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2008.
  9. ^ Penguin Reception Study, ZZ9, archived from the original on eight October 2009, retrieved 11 March 2009
  10. ^ "Tweet The Galaxy - And Another Matter - Eoin Colfer". Archived from the original on 31 July 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  11. ^ Page, Benedicte (17 September 2009). "Fan-site spat over new Hitchhiker". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on two Dec 2008. Retrieved xx August 2009.
  12. ^ "Network Radio BBC Week 41: Mon 12 October 2009". BBC. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
  13. ^ Wolf, Ian. "And Some other Thing..." British Comedy Guide. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved vii October 2009.
  14. ^ Book at Bedtime – And Another Thing... - Zootle.internet
  15. ^ Harrison Jones (12 October 2017). "Don't panic! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in line for radio reboot". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 Oct 2017.
  16. ^ "And Another Affair..." Audible.co.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  17. ^ Lawson, Marking (17 October 2009). "And Another Affair . . . by Eoin Colfer - Book review". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 20 Oct 2009. Retrieved 15 Nov 2009.
  18. ^ Silver, Curtis (3 November 2009). "And Another Thing... A Totally Improbable Review". Wired. Archived from the original on 6 Jan 2010. Retrieved ten Dec 2009.
  19. ^ Sullivan, Jane (31 Oct 2009). "Another bite". The Age. Australia. Archived from the original on ane November 2009. Retrieved 10 Dec 2009.
  20. ^ "New Hitchhiker'south Book is Mostly Harmless... Unfortunately". io9. Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved xv November 2009.
  21. ^ Private Eye, 8 Jan 2010, p.26

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