| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781401323585 | | Publisher: HYPNT | | Publish Date: 10/12/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211164518 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 8664 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 10H x 6.5L x 1T |
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| | | Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the bestselling works "The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" and "Artemis Fowl, And Another Thing . . ." continues the popular series started by the late Douglas Adams.
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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series, which contains five books, is already renowned as the longest trilogy in the history of the universe, but most fans felt fairly certain it was over when author Douglas Adams died in 2001. Adams would no doubt be delighted to know that he has once again bamboozled the literary world, this time from beyond the grave. Arthur Dent, the galaxy's most irrepressible defeatist, has been given a second (or is it a sixth?) life by Adams's fellow Brit, Eoin Colfer, who helms a wildly popular series of his own called ARTEMIS FOWL. After five books worth of intergalactic shenanigans that would turn the average person's brain into a gelatinous paste, Arthur has finally made it back to his version of the Earth, only to discover that it is once again scheduled for routine explosion. While Arthur seems perfectly content to experience annihilation, provided he has time for a cup of tea, the relentlessly enthusiastic Galactic president Zaphod Beeblebrox thinks a bit of heroism is in order. Colfer wrote the book under enormous pressure from Adams's legion of rabid fans, but he did not panic and produced a hilarious conclusion to the series, at least until the next book.
| Praise| "[T]o his credit, the plot Colfer manages to improvise is perfectly in keeping with the established universe, revolving around angst-ridden Vogons, drunken gods, and shallow shaved apes....[I]t's satisfying to have Arthur and the rest rescued from the purgatory Adams banished them to, and enough of the jokes land to keep the pace moving. ANOTHER THING isn't the novel fans may have wanted, but it's the best that could be hoped for under the circumstances: fast-moving, respectful, and in the end, mostly harmless." - Zack Handlen 10/29/2009 |
| Author Bio| Douglas Adams | | The award-winning author of the definitive guide to slogging around in outer space, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, was born and raised in Cambridge, England. While studying English at St. John's College, Cambridge, Adams began to write, perform in, and direct stage plays. Through this experience he got a job as a script supervisor on the influential cult TV show, DR. WHO--Adams also said that he worked as everything from a chicken shed cleaner to a bodyguard. In 1978 he wrote what many still consider his best work, the science fictional satire that became the original BBC radio series, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE....The record album of that first series, as well as the second series, won awards from the British Science Fiction Association in 1979, 1980, and 1981. Following THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE... radio series, Adams adapted his scripts and produced the first novel of what was originally intended as a trilogy, though it eventually stretched to five novels and a short story. With the publication of the fourth book in the "trilogy," and with his subject matter becoming simultaneously more environmentally aware and much darker in tone, Adams arrived at two important themes of his later work--ecological concern and a more pervasive sense of pessimism. He explores the first theme in his non-fiction account--co-written with Mark Carwardine--of traveling to see the last surviving members of various endangered animal species around the world. The second theme, addressed in the Dirk Gently series, delved more fully into the defects of the human condition, although a sense of comedy remained. Adams returned to finish up the Hitchhiker trilogy with a final, fifth volume. Following that, Adams, a longtime fan of Macintosh computers, developed several CD-ROM games, based both on his own published novels and on original ideas--one of the latter, STARSHIP TITANIC, was novelized by Adams's friend, Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones. Adams married Jane Belson on November 25, 1991 and the couple had a daughter, Polly Jane--nicknamed "Rocket"--on June 22, 1994. He died of a heart attack on May 11, 2001, only two days after Asteroid 18610 (which had been discovered in 1998) was officially named Arthurdent, in honor of the main character in THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. |
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