No more, please.
No one can replicate the Douglas Adams style of the characters speach. In my opinion, even Adams should of left the trilogy as it was. The 4th and 5th books seemed to rehash a lot of the 1st 3 books content. A sixth book in the ever increasingly inaccurately named trilogy will probably do the same. But, resistance! is futile! where money can be made easily.

Adams himself said: "I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book…I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note.

"Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number."

[edit].....after reading that article in full, I'm a little bit more optimistic that Eoin Colfer might actually be able to make the Sixth Book work. I think the quote from Douglas himself impressed me most.



So maybe some kind of alternate/parallell universe with a happy but funny ending could just be worth a read.

In an interview reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams expressed dissatisfaction with the "rather bleak" tone of this book, and said that he "would love to end Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note" by writing a sixth installment in the series. He blamed personal problems, saying "for all sorts of personal reasons I don't want to go into, I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background. And, guess what, it was a rather bleak book!"

When Adams died (due to a heart attack) on May 11, 2001, it seemed that Mostly Harmless would become the final book of what Adams called a "trilogy". However, The Salmon of Doubt was published posthumously, containing, alongside numerous articles written by Adams, several chapters belonging to a new storyline for a third "Dirk Gently" novel. In interviews that can be found in the Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fitted better into another Hitchhikers book.

Although the complete destruction of every version of the Earth in every possible timeline, along with the death of nearly all the regular characters, would seem to make a continuation extremely unlikely, Adams had remarked that the afterlife-enhanced state of the regulars merely meant he would not have to waste time at the beginning of the next book gathering them together or explaining what they'd been up to in the intervening period.

It is Radio 4's Book At Bedtime starting next week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4z16

Abridged (to be expected)

Can't see it in their podcast list

Read it all now.
Not bad i have to admit. As murf said, occassionally he tries too hard, but well worth a read if you're a fan

Finally read it. Not bad, I found the guide notes rather irritating. Better than 4 & 5, but not much to beat.

The ending does seem to be setting up another book.

I didn't realise that it would be a hardback, glad I only paid a £1.