Wayne after Russ:

> I read an interview with Adams a couple of years ago in which he said he felt
> he
> had let his readers down at the end of "Mostly Harmless."  He was having a bad
> year when he wrote it, and the gloomy, depressing tone of the ending came from
> his feelings at the time.  Though he didn't promise anything, he hinted that
> he
> might try to bail out Arthur and the rest in yet another volume of the
> "trilogy."  Sadly, that's something else we'll never see now.

Well, IIRC, Marvin survived the "Blake's 7 style" ending of "Mostly
Harmless", which IMHO is enough of an opening to get back some or all of the
main characters, since I believe one could make a case that there is yet one
more copy of the Earth which had not been destroyed by the Vogons or
Psychologists, or Mice, or whomever.  One might suppose that this extra copy
of the Earth might just have been made at a time when Ford, Arthyr,
Trillian, and Zaphod were all on the original from whence the copy was made,
and that these duplicates might still be trapped there.

Where is this extra copy of the Earth?  Well, let's just say that the next
book in the Hitchhiker's trilogy would have to be named:

   "Brain The Size of a Planet"

G.

P.S. Anyone who hasn't heard the original BBC radio series (which came
before any of the books) has not yet truly experienced the Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy at all.

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