Hub 127 by Various

Author:Various
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Publisher: Right Hand Publishing

And Another Thing

by Eoin Colfer

Penguin

rrp £7.99

reviewed by martin willoughby

For those who worship at the Islington altar of Saint Douglas, this was always going to be a book too far. For the rest of us, it was a worry. The good news is that Colfer hasn’t run roughshod over Adam’s legacy and has treated the series well. He has managed to retain parts of the Adamsesque humour and writing style, whilst writing his own book. The bad news is that Marvin the Paranoid Android doesn’t appear.

If, like me, you’ve read the previous five books of the trilogy, seen the film, listened to the radio programmes, watched the TV series and got the lot on CD, DVD and paperback, you will be well aware of the discontinuity between them. ‘And Another Thing’ continues in this tradition by ignoring the ending that the fifth series was given in the radio treatment and concentrates on the previous book instead: sort of. We meet Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Random living their own lives in various parts of the galaxy. Ford is at an expensive resort, getting drunk every night and waking up with no hangover whilst paying for it with an unlimited credit card.

Trillian is about to meet her daughter for an interview after a long and successful career in galactic news reporting. Her daughter, Random Dent, is now president of the galaxy and is about to marry her pet. Arthur, meanwhile, is on a beach with nothing to disturb him. No planets exploding under his feet or aliens trying to kill him for revenge.

Their four little worlds slowly collapse into each other’s and disappear, landing them back on Earth as the Grebulons are destroying it. In the nick of time, Zaphod turns up in the Heart of Gold and rescues them... again. Unfortunately Zaphod has removed his second head and plugged into the computer and can’t give it proper instructions. This is where Wowbagger turns up and the story gets its skates on. What follows is an escape from certain death, the Vogons chasing them across the galaxy and Arthur standing on another planet full of humans that’s about to be destroyed. The main characters, Ford, Trillian, Zaphod, Random and Arthur are all there. But there are three other characters, though two of them aren’t new, that have some big parts to play. The first of these is Wowbagger. In case you’d forgotten, he’s the immortal who has decided to go around the galaxy insulting everyone in alphabetical order. This time he rescues Arthur and co from certain destruction as Zaphod has promised to kill him. Why? Wowbagger said he was fat. Then there’s Hillman Hunter. For those of you below the age of 40, a Hillman Hunter was a car as was a Ford Prefect. Hillman is disgustingly rich and has managed to buy a planet where other disgustingly rich people can bring their servants, pay him a lot of money and live out the rest of their lives in luxury. Unfortunately another group of humans have also been brought there and they now worship the god Cheese.

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