New book with Neil Gaiman foreword
MJ Simpson
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams has just been published in
its US hardback edition by Justin, Charles & Co of Boston, with a new
foreword very kindly written for me by Neil Gaiman. (The UK edition
has a foreword by John Lloyd.)
This comes at pretty much the same time as Titan Books' new US
hardback of Don't Panic: Neil's 1988 book with the four additional
chapters that David K Dickson wrote in 1993 and the four that I wrote
last year when this edition was published in UK paperback. (The US
edition has a short new intro by Neil which the UK one doesn't have.)
This of course creates the extraordinary situation of two
near-simultaneous biographies of the same person, one written by Neil
Gaiman but with some pages by MJ Simpson, and one written by MJ
Simpson with some pages by Neil Gaiman!
If you're a fan of Douglas Adams, I strongly recommend both as they
are designed to complement each other to some extent. While Hitchhiker
is a lot deeper, more thorough and more accurate than Don't Panic, I
nevertheless omitted certain non-essential but interesting/amusing
stories that are in Don't Panic because I had to keep my word-count
below 120,000 words.
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MJ Simpson
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squeakeasy
"MJ Simpson" <mjs...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> This of course creates the extraordinary situation of two
> near-simultaneous biographies of the same person, one written by Neil
> Gaiman but with some pages by MJ Simpson, and one written by MJ
> Simpson with some pages by Neil Gaiman!
>
Is anyone else thinking this is really very silly in a Douglas Adams sort of
way?
Perhaps I should only post when more awake, but I thought it was very
appropriately funny.
And now I'm hungry