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Douglas Adams still as relevant as he ever was
Sunday 11th March would have been Douglas Adams’ 60th birthday and he is as relevant and entertaining as he ever was, with the eBook omnibus edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five, published by the Tor imprint, going straight to No.1 on the Kindle chart. While friends, fans and the [...]
The World Book Night top 100 books to read, give and share
The folks over at World Book Night – www.worldbooknight.org – asked readers to nominate the 10 books they most love to read, give and share. Over 6,000 people nominated more than 8,000 titles and the top 100 are displayed below. I am pleased to say that I have read 22 of the listed titles and [...]
Dirk Maggs on Mostly Harmless
October 12 marked the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Here are Dirk Maggs’s thoughts on the fifth and final book in the series Mostly Harmless: This is a wonderful, terrible book. Wonderful in that it contains more of Douglas’s unique humour and driving obsessions than many of his other [...]
Colfer and Benedictus are rewarded for their courage
Eoin Colfer and David Benedictus both deserve medals for bravery. In having the pluck to step into the shoes of the national treasure’s that are Douglas Adams and AA Milne they have put themselves on a pedestal that people were trying to knock them off before they had even written a word. William Horwood (Kenneth [...]
Neil Gaiman on So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
October 12 marked the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Here are fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s thoughts on the fourth book in the series So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Douglas Adams was tall. He was brilliant. I’ve met a handful of geniuses, and I’d count him as [...]
Simon Brett on Life, the Universe and Everything
As we continue the countdown to October 12 and the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, here are Simon Brett’s words on the third book in the trilogy, Life, the Universe and Everything: I am unique in the history of the world – and indeed the entire universe. I am [...]
Penguin launches official Hitchhiker’s sequel
You may not have noticed, but there’s something stirring in the Galaxy… bestselling Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer’s 6th novel in the ever-more increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, will be published on 12th October, the 30th anniversary of publication of the first book in the late, great Douglas Adams’ phenomenally successful [...]
Terry Jones on The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
As we continue the countdown to October 12 and the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, here are Python Terry Jones’s words on the second book in the trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: “I woke up one Sunday morning with a hangover and remembered that I’d [...]
October 12 marks HGTTG 30th anniversary
We here at Fantasy Book Review are dedicated to the fantasy genre. We do not read and review science fiction books unless they are something most remarkable, books that transcend genres… As October 12 2009 marks the day that the most remarkeable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor [...]
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The Sacred BandDavid Anthony Durham
No ReturnZachary Jernigan
NOS4R2Joe Hill
AvilionRobert Holdstock
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