characters: british, robot and aliensetting: space
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
The basic plot: A man wakes up one morning and finds himself thrust into an intergalactic cosmic headfuck farce that starts with the destruction of the world and then proceeds to get weird.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
the story also involves bad poetry, tea and an extremely cool dude with two headaches
the humor is not particularly monty python-esque, but not totally unrelated
just read it
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Emily -- the time it will take you to read all the books will be enough to see you through the birth of yer wee one.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 3 January 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm
Children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.
Mostly Harmless, the last Hitchhiker book, was written by its creator, the late Douglas Adams, 16 years ago.
Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...
Eoin Colfer, 43, is best known for the best-selling Artemis Fowl novels.
― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series," he said.
"But on reflection I realised that this is 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."
Clearly I am also at first reaction stage.
― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45024000/jpg/_45024052_721e5eb3-cc4b-4642-8d44-734f8fbba5aa.jpg
l-r: shit-eating grin, douglas adams
― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
what
no
― Assault! Assault! (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link
> Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...
she also said, according to radio4 this mornig, that she thought dna would hate the idea.
(pat nevin was great immediately afterwards though, comparing ronaldo to zaphod)
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Mice: Now, to business!Humans: TO BUSINESS!!!Mice: What are you doing??Zaphod: Oh sorry, we thought you were proposing a toast.
― moley, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP to Stephen Moore aka Marvin the Paranoid Android. Forever indelible (and as I muttered on another HHG thread a couple of months back, the audiobook recordings he did are kinda definitive in my mind).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link