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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Returns—With the Original Cast

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:37PM   
from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Forty years to the day of its first broadcast, there's a new BBC radio series.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy deserves a special place in the geek pantheon. It's the story of hapless BBC radio editor Arthur Dent, his best friend Ford Prefect, and the adventures that result when Prefect saves Dent when the Earth is unexpectedly destroyed to make way for a galactic bypass. Written by the late, great Douglas Adams, HHGTTG first appeared as a radio series in the UK back in 1978. On Thursday—exactly 40 years to the day from that first broadcast—it made its return home with the start of Hexagonal Phase, a radio dramatization of the sixth and final book of an increasingly misnamed trilogy.

Source: ArsTechnica

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Original Submission

• Re:Not necessarily final, and not written by DNA (Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 13 2018, @07:20PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @07:20PM (#651942)

  Do you mean the final book is something almost, but not quite entirely unlike awful?

  This actually demonstrates perfectly why trying to imitate another writer usually fails. You can reference the original guy's memorable sentences, you can use the same characters, but you still won't quite get the essence of it.

  And that happens even when the writer doing the imitating is a good writer, or even a better writer than the person they're trying to imitate. You can't help but write like yourself, no matter how hard you try.

  --
  The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

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