Dubious ideas
Sep. 17th, 2008 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyApparently someone has commissioned another book in the "Hitchhiker" series.
Barring a really long and effective seance, I can't see how this will turn out well. I can't think of a single instance of a series continuation for a dead author that I found satisfactory. Hell, even series continuation by a living author gets dicey. Citing here Frank Herbert's later "Dune" books, or Xanth . . .
Barring a really long and effective seance, I can't see how this will turn out well. I can't think of a single instance of a series continuation for a dead author that I found satisfactory. Hell, even series continuation by a living author gets dicey. Citing here Frank Herbert's later "Dune" books, or Xanth . . .
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Date: 2008-09-17 02:52 pm (UTC)They commissioned it from Eoin Colfer.
Yeah, THAT Eoin Colfer. The one responsible for Artemis Fowl.
"I sense a great disturbance in the Force... as though millions of souls suddenly cried out at once, 'Oh no, not again.'"
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:39 pm (UTC)But I've read similar comments by others, who have.