its baaaaack

[passionpop]

The HIckhikers guide to the galaxy is coming back with a new book next year

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[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

Hang on, didn't the author, in an attempt to finish the ever-expanding trillogy, destroy the entire sub-set of possible universes that include the planet earth in his stories? Then go and die himself, to make sure that there were no more books in the series?

Then again, his premise in the books that whenever the meaning of the universe is understood, it immediately becomes a more complex place kinda explains that side of things, like a self defence mechanism to preserve a continuing quest for meaning. With the flipside of that theory, if there is a quest for meaning, that meaning has to be theoretically obtainable, so theoretically it should be possible to bring back Earth - it'll just have to get more complex and bissare each time.

I'm not sure if that bodes well for the next book or not - I wonder how true he'll be to the original?

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

yes, and then he started writing 'salmon of doubt' (the book after the destruction) and then he died

I own the book, but i cant read it. I cant get through more than 10 pages without thinking 'he's dead'

[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

so he started writing it - I guess that means he didn't finish, did someone finish it for him, or was it left undone?

I don't blame you, but now I'm curious, I didn't know about this one, so I kinda want to see it...

Good thing I'm no cat....

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I feel about that...

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

ok, you know how bad ideas for movies are direct to DVD... what would be the equivalent for books.... direct to landfill?