Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Ovum]

First of all, the less said about the "film," the better. This is
about the Douglas Adams books.

He started on a sixth book in the series, but passed away. His widow
commissioned Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series, to finish
the book.

"And Another Thing" brings back Zaphod Breeblebox, Arthur Dent, the
Vogons, et al. Here's a typical passage:

"The Vogon bureaucruiser was a marvelous vehicle, providing you worked
on the inside. If you worked on the outside, as a panel scraper or
engine plunger, then it was possible to be driven blind or even mad by
its sheer symmetrophobia. Most craft give a nod, however brief and
unfriendly, toward beauty. Vogon ships did not nod toward beauty. They
pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley. They spat in
the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their way through the notions of
aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel
through space as defile it and toss it aside."

Any Brits here catch the radio or TV specials that were aired to
celebrate the new book?

o