And something else by the way ...
And one more thing, by the way ... (Original title: And Another Thing ... ) is the sixth part of the series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the English writer Douglas Adams , who wrote the first five books in the series. After his death, Eoin Colfer wrote a sixth volume authorized by Adams' widow, which was published in 2009.
background
Before his death, Adams felt the need to continue the story; he suspects he will write a sixth book sometime in the future.
“People have said, quite rightly, that Mostly Harmless is a very bleak book. And it was a bleak book. I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number. "
“People said, rightly, that Mostly Harmless [Once Rupert and Back] was a very dark book. And it was a dark book. I would like to give the hitchhiker a slightly more optimistic ending, so five seems to be a wrong number, six is a better number. "
After Jane Belson, Adams' widow, had given her permission to have a sequel written, the Penguin publishing house decided on Eoin Colfer, who became famous for his books for children and young people.
action
After Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Tricia McMillan and their daughter Random stayed in various virtual worlds for a long time, they are now in the "Club Beta" on earth. Their existence is once again threatened by the Vogons. Zaphod Beeblebrox and Wowbagger save the four from certain death. Then they learn that one last human colony still exists on the planet Nano. Together with Wowbagger they make their way to Nano, while Zaphod visits the planet of the Nordic gods.
Bowerick Wowbagger is a green alien who is involuntarily immortal and who can no longer gain anything from this circumstance. He wants to find an opponent on the planet Nano who will finally redeem him. But when the time came, Wowbagger fell in love and wants to go on living.
The plot is determined by a number of actually improbable events, for example by extraterrestrials, who contribute to their own destruction through their actions. An immortal must be killed so that the last remaining humans can be saved from being destroyed by the Vogons. Zaphod Beeblebrox makes a sizeable chunk of money without realizing his exact plans.
Reviews
“Colfer's book is a whirlwind of crazy ideas in which high-tech fantasies are easily combined with motifs from Nordic legends. And that's pretty elegant and conclusive. "
"I feel that Eoin Colfer has achieved a perfectly calculated adaptation: a novel which serves as a fitting memorial but also has a life of its own."
"I think that Eoin Colfer managed a perfectly calculated adaptation: A novel that serves as a suitable memorial and yet leads its own life."
“The style fits, but the ingenious, almost philosophical approach that characterized Douglas Adams' 'Anhalter' books is missing. The story is too conventional and too predictable. There is a lack of ingenious ideas such as mice that run the world, cattle that offer themselves to eat or the answer, which is 42 . In addition, there is unfortunately no chapter in which Marvin appears. "
expenditure
- First edition: And Another Thing… Hyperion Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4013-2358-5 .
- German: And something else, by the way ... Heyne, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-26640-7 .
- Audiobook: And something else
Web links
- And by the way ... something in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alison Flood: Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker's Guide book. guardian.co.uk , September 17, 2008, accessed March 13, 2013 .
- ^ Children's author to write sixth installation of Hitchhiker series. The Independent , September 17, 2008, accessed March 16, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Don't panic! - the sixth part of the five-volume trilogy is here . In: phantastik-couch.de; Retrieved August 21, 2013.
- ↑ Michael Schmitt: Sacrilege or a congenial continuation? at dradio.de, accessed on August 21, 2013. (detailed review)
- ↑ Michael Fiedler: And by the way, something else ... is the name of the sixth book in what is probably the best-known "five-part trilogy in four volumes". Eoin Colfer has inherited a difficult legacy. at fm4.orf.at, accessed on August 21, 2013.
- ↑ Thomas Wolff: Galactic scaremongering. fr-online.de , October 19, 2009, accessed on March 13, 2013 .
- ^ Mark Lawson, And Another Thing ... by Eoin Colfer. The Guardian , October 17, 2009, accessed March 16, 2013 .