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I just read that BBC audio is going to do the sequels to "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" radio shows next year. Which is fantastic!! Most of the original cast will be returning as well. I think the only voices being recast are Eddie, the ships computer, and the Book. The rest are the same.





My first exposure to Hitchhikers was seeing the book in a little book store (the only one in the area then....now gone thanx to Barnes and Nobles). Didn't think much of it at the time. A week later, I'm watching BBC sci-fi on PBS on the weekend (I was 12 or so), and came across this cool, but cheap as shit, looking show. It was hilarious. When I tuned in the following week, I found out it was the Hitchhikers Guide. So I went and bought the book the next day, then Restaurant and waited for the next book.

I loved them. Then, sometime in the early 90's, I saw the original radio show for sale, picked them up, and fell so much in love with it, that it's the definitive version for me. For those of you who don't know, the radio show came first. Then the books. After hearing the radio show, I couldn't read the books anymore because I realized just how much of the books was filler. What once seemed like a great writing style came off as a way to pad the book to make it novel length. The radio show was split up to become the first two books.

It's now available on CD, but it's about sixty buck or so. I plan on picking them up in the next few months.

I just love audio drama, but only if it has a full cast, music and sound FX. I utterly HATE books on tape that are read by someone. I don't care how talented the reader is. The ONLY exception I make to that is the Foundation series read by David Dukes (RIP), and that's just because we havn't had a full audio production done yet.

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Brikar

Sequels? Who's going to write them? I mean, it can't really be the same without Adams...

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Stag

Hmm...sounds interesting, I remember hearing the originals way back when. I think they broadcast them on NPR here in NYC.

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They're doing the last three books in the series, written by the man himself.
Although I found the books to be less funny as they went, and don't recall what the fourth one was about. I do recall that I didn't care for it though. Never read the fifth, but from what my brother told me, I didn't miss much.

You know, I thought Adams came out with a very cool concept never seen before in sci-fi. The hitchhiking part. It's a shame that he didn't focus on that in the following novels. B5 made a reference to hitchhiking on ships. I'd like to see a series of books about someone doing this. Comedy or not, it's a great concept, as is the Guide itself. Although the actual book in the series is a spoof on Asimov's Encylopedia Galactica.

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