And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As heard on BBC Radio 4

Eoin Colfer

May 2010 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

Discover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featuring original cast members including Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey and Sandra Dickinson.

Arthur Dent led a perfectly ordinary, uneventful life until the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hurled him deep into outer space. Now he's convinced a cruelly indifferent universe is out to get him.

And who can blame him?

His life is about to collide with a pantheon of unemployed gods, a lovestruck green alien, a very irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese. If, that is, everyone's favourite renegade Galactic President can get him off planet Earth before it is destroyed . . . again.

'A triumph, fabulous. Colfer has given us a delight' Observer

'I haven't read anything in a long time that made me laugh as much' The Times

'Chock-full of fanciful, inventive one-liners and asides, brimming with a burning sense of the ridiculousness of life' Independent on Sunday

'The best post-mortem impersonation I have ever read' Mark Lawson, Guardian

Ratings and reviews

I wanted to like this and it started surprisingly well. However the further in you read the more obvious it becomes that it just doesn't capture the atmosphere of Douglas Adams' universe. It's an ok book in it's own right, it just doesn't work as a follow up to the series.

I genuinely tried to give this book a chance but the characters created by Douglas Adams were so distinctive that any departure from their familiar mannerisms set my teeth on edge. The main characters conversations were clumsy & I didn't enjoy the book at all

Eoin Colfer has made a valiant, but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to breath life into the formally glorious Hitchhiker series. The signature writing style of Adams has definitely been attempted, but there is a slightly "off" feel to the whole thing, and little to differentiate this book from the next comedy novel.

About the author

Eoin Colfer is the megaselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Airman and The Legend of . . . books. His brilliant new series WARP is out now. Eoin lives with his family in Ireland. www.eoincolfer.com