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i feel the same as slite ; wouldn't it be brilliant to have another one, and one that you haven't actually read eleventy billion times already, but... in the past i've been invariably disappointed when someone tries to take up where a (dead) author has left off ; Thrones and Dominations comes to mind, which tried really hard to follow in the footsteps of Dorothy Sayers (and while that's already not easy, it's nothing compared to the footsteps of Douglas Adams). it came close, but it just wasn't right. it didn't feel natural ; you could sense that the author wasn't writing in her own voice, but trying to imitate someone else's.
however, i have not read the artemis fowl books (although i'm about to add them to my list, after this bit of news), and it would be thrilling to have a 6th book in the trilogy (maybe then we could add a little sub-script "2" every time we write "the hitchhiker trilogy" sort of like h2o), so i'll try to stay optimistic and wait and see. and i'll read it when it comes out.
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