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Don't Panic?!

Make it an ebook reader using eink display, with the nice cover, and reading most of the the major formats... and give it ability to read the page aloud with a DSP chip...

and Voilá! A really useful gadget!

Adding a the Guide and the full text of the series... you have the fanboy's wet dream.
 
I'd've thought Pratchett would have been a better choice for this but then I imagine Pratchett would turn it down.

I loved the first couple of books (and the radio play) when I was a teenager.

I read them again a couple of years back and barely broke a smile.

Some things are best left where they are, I think :)

Crow
 
aramis said:
Make it an ebook reader using eink display, with the nice cover, and reading most of the the major formats... and give it ability to read the page aloud with a DSP chip...

and Voilá! A really useful gadget!

Adding a the Guide and the full text of the series... you have the fanboy's wet dream.
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Yes! I had totally forgotten about the Kindle and others of its form factor.
 
Beech said:
Money??
It will sell bucketloads even if it is crap once the PR & advertising gets its teeth into it.

What is a great shame is that there are many talented friends of the late Mr. Adams who could have respectfully stepped into his shoes for this: Stephen Fry, Terry Jones, even I believe Terry Pratchett.
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While Mr. Prachett may have turned it down if offered out of respect, he is also extremely ill, and so I would presume be doubly disinclined, again, if he was offered.
 
far-trader said:
Panic may be an over-reaction but frankly I'm worried.

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Good instincts I think, I totally agree with his first reaction. I guess we'll have to wait and see if he was wrong to go against them. Sounds like a money grab to me, by the widow, publisher, and author.

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Well why don't we just write sequels to Mark Twain, Dickens, Vogt, Asimov, Harrison, Vonnegut and any other author you want to put in there ... dead or alive.

I mean, Hitchikers, the actual stories, were one man's creation. It's not like he created a franchise and asked other authors to jump in. I don't know, to me this is pretty reprehensible.
 
Damn and I liked Eion Colfer too. (If you check my personal page he's there as a favorite author) Some of my favorite authors have lost my respect and patronage. I was kinda pissed when he made manga of his books but this takes the cake. Messing with someone else's beautiful work. He should stick to his own Sci-Fi ideas. And he can forget me buying any more of his work. I just can't imagine him describing a whale discovering language as it plummets to it's doom out of a new transport drive.
 
Scarecrow said:
I loved the first couple of books (and the radio play) when I was a teenager.

I read them again a couple of years back and barely broke a smile.

Some things are best left where they are, I think :)
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Sad but true. I wish I'd stuck with my memories rather than picking up the collected volume a couple of years ago. It just hasn't aged well, I think. Or maybe I haven't. :confused:
 
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