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Skirr
10-12-2009, 05:09 PM
Today, the twelfth of October 09 (OH-FINE, am I right?) I went to the Glasgow Film Theatre. Not to see a film... or a play, perplexingly. I went to a book signing for the sixth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book in the trilogy of six.

Uh yeah.

The original author, Douglas Adams, died in 2001 from a heart attack. He always intended to write a sixth book (five is a silly number to end on). Last year, Adams' widow asked Eoin Colfer to write the final instalment, being that she was impressed with his work and his sense of humour.

He accepted. And today I went to get my copy on the thirtieth anniversary of the very day the original book was released. There was a 'fact-busting' Q&A, a reading by Colfer (which was hilarious) and an opportunity to purchase the book and have it signed. (Mine is inscribed:
'To Johnny
Say hi to Zaphod!
Eoin' )

While he was writing we talked about how one concept of the book (name of Babel Fish. A small fish that once placed in your ear translates from and to any language based on its extraordinary (god-smiting) powers of digestion) had been ripped off in both Star Trek and Star Wars.

Oh yeah, and this is my favourite series of books.

tl;dr? Well, share your awesome stories of your favourite books/meetings with authors/anything like that.
Wras
10-12-2009, 05:18 PM
I was at Borders one time and saw Chrichton had died and said aloud "What?! No one told me Chrichton died!" and then like five people said the same thing and Borders was depressed so I bought The Lost World and left, enlightened and sad.
notorious UZIMAKI
10-12-2009, 05:21 PM
WOW. awesome. i like HHGTG, will def get the sixth. i went to a reading by david sedaris - hilarious. afterwards he signed our copies. i told him i wanted him to sign my sister's copy of naked. i told her she loved him and was a lawyer for civil rights and super liberal/democratic. he signed it - 'best of luck, david sedaris, head of montgomery county republican council' haha, good isht
Skirr
10-12-2009, 05:49 PM
I was at Borders one time and saw Chrichton had died and said aloud "What?! No one told me Chrichton died!" and then like five people said the same thing and Borders was depressed so I bought The Lost World and left, enlightened and sad.

I hate that mix. I think I had finished like the first Hitchhiker's book and found out Adams was dead. I had even more electrolytes to finish the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of five (as it was then called).