This month, the story has once again hit the headlines thanks to the imminent publication of a sixth Hitchhiker's novel, And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling Irish author most famous for his Artemis Fowl series. A fifth novel was published in 1992 and the franchise even survived the 2001 death of creator Douglas Adams: a film version and three further radio series have appeared within the last five years. Yet though the subsequent period of Hitchhiker-mania – by 1984 encompassing two radio series, four novels, a TV series, computer game and three major stage productions – may be over, the phenomenon has proved as indestructible as its constantly reincarnated bit-part character, Agrajag. It's now 30 years since the publication of the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel.
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