The Guardian reports that children's author Eoin Colfer–best known for his Harry Potter-ish Artemis Fowl books–will be writing a sixth installment in the The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series. Mostly Harmless, the fifth book in Douglas Adams' beloved "trilogy," was published in 1992, and Adams died in 2001 before writing his planned conclusion–which he had hoped would end the series "on a slightly more upbeat note." Adams' widow, Jane Belson, has approved the choice of Colfer to pick up where Adams left off: Book six, And Another Thing…, is set to be published by Penguin in October of 2009. Says Colfer of the project: "I feel more pressure to perform now than I ever have with my own books, and that is why I am bloody determined that this will be the best thing I have ever written. For the first time in decades I feel the uncertainty that I last felt in my teenage years. There are people out there that really want to like this book."
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