The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase: And Another Thing… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Quintessential Phase by Eoin Colfer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Dirk Maggs beautifully adapted this dramatized “radio show” from Colfer’s novel And Another Thing… as the 6th installment in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.
This is a finishing piece to cap off the Hitchhiker’s Guide series after Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adam’s last entry in the story, which left us on a dark note. In Adam’s original end, we are left with the conviction that everyone is dead. I saw an interview with Adams where he expressed regret that the series ended so darkly and that he intended to add a better ending eventually, which unfortunately he wasn’t able to provide.
It also reunites many of the original cast members from both the radio shows and a short-run television series from 1981, including two different Trillians, and workable reasons for that. It’s a beautifully blended cast of old and new.
This brings together just about everything you want to know about what happens to each character. Does Trillian run off with the best and sulking in the universe? Does Arthur ever find Fenchurch again? Whatever happened to Zaphod Beeblebrox’s other head? What will be Random’s legacy as former President of the Galactic government? These are only a few of the great mysteries you will uncover in this edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
An important note to anyone reading my thoughts on books or dramatic audio like this is that I make zero distinctions between paper, ebook, or audiobook. The media used does not matter because the process the brain goes through to interpret the information is the same.
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