Ouiiiidarkfriend,vendredi 02 septembre 2005, 09:30 a écrit :Ensuite, je trouve que le personnage le plus réussi, c'est Marvin, le robot dépressif!! (d'ailleurs il y en a sur le forum qui l'ont déjà avatarisé....!).





Ouiiiidarkfriend,vendredi 02 septembre 2005, 09:30 a écrit :Ensuite, je trouve que le personnage le plus réussi, c'est Marvin, le robot dépressif!! (d'ailleurs il y en a sur le forum qui l'ont déjà avatarisé....!).
Quand la réalité, blablabla...Un premier guide touristique de l'espace NEW YORK (AFP) - Le premier guide touristique de l'espace sortira en novembre aux Etats-Unis, publication de Space Adventures, première et unique société à envoyer des particuliers dans l'espace.Le "Guide du touriste de l'espace" sera le compagnon de "tous ceux qui ont toujours rêvé de voyager vers l'ultime frontière", explique la compagnie. Illustré, riche en recommandations pour organiser son séjour, le guide liste "les meilleures destinations", "les meilleurs véhicules", détaille l'entraînement nécessaire, donne des conseils de survie et finalement raconte ce que sera le voyage. "Il s'adresse aux gens qui aimeraient aller dans l'espace. Et ils sont des millions", a assuré le PDG de Space Adventures et auteur du guide, Eric Anderson. "Les gens lisent des livres sur toutes sortes de choses qu'ils ne feront jamais. C'est un livre à la fois pour les astronautes en chambre et pour celui qui veux réellement aller dans l'espace". Space Adventures a depuis 2001 avec l'Américain Dennis Tito, envoyé trois touristes dans l'espace, en collaboration avec l'Agence spatiale russe. Le dernier, l'homme d'affaires américain Greg Olsen, est rentré de son voyage ce mardi, au terme de 10 jours de "villégiature" avec les professionnels de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS). Il a pour cela déboursé 20 millions de dollars. Plus accessible, le guide sera vendu 15,95 dollars en librairie.
H2G2 - Le guide du voyageur galactiqueFilm au format 2.35 (16/9 compatible 4/3)Français, anglaisDolby Digital 5.1Français DTSSous-titres françaisSuppléments :Commentaires audio de Garth Jennings, Nick Goldsmith, Martin Freeman et Bill NighyCommentaires audio du producteur exécutif Robbie Stamp et de Sean Solle, un collègue de Douglas AdamsMaking of : Le guide du tournage (9min) Karaoké : Merci bien pour le poisson (2min 30s)3 scènes coupées (2min 30s) : La Terre, aucune animosité ; Nous vaincrons ; Forces impossibles2 scènes vraiment coupées (2min 30s) : On panique ; Arthur s’échappeGags disséminés
Booksellers have reacted positively to the news that children's writer Eoin Colfer is to write a sixth instalment of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series for Penguin. But the news has received a mixed reception among Hitchhiker fans, with spats appearing across the web between Atermis Fowl fans and Hitchhiker devotees.Waterstone’s science fiction buyer Michael Rowley said that the match of Eoin Colfer and The Hitchhiker’s Guide was "an equally inspired combination" to Penguin’s pairing of Sebastian Faulks with James Bond. "There’s a ready-made audience of millions for more HHGTG books - this is very exciting news for all those fans," Rowley said.However there were defensive reactions from some fans, with comments on Floor 42, a Douglas Adams online fan site, including: "It’s just sad that a complete unique series can’t remain untouched", and "I hope this Colfer guy doesn’t completely ruin the books."But Artemis Fowl fans took a different view: "Haha, here at AFC [Artemis Fowl Confidential] us AF fans are pretty happy with the result. But what about the HHGG fans? They don't seem too pleased." Such has been the response that an Artemis Fowl Confidential moderator has stepped in, warning Fowl fans not to "start anything up". "They have their opinions and we have ours. Starting a debate there (or here) with them won't do us any good. We certainly don't want a cross-forum flame war."Penguin beat off competition from one other publisher to secure the commission for the Irish children's writer after an approach from the Douglas Adams estate and the late author's widow Jane Belson. The new novel, titled And Another Thing, will be published in hardback in October 2009, backed with a big campaign.Penguin group marketing and publicity director Joanna Prior said that Penguin had announced the news to Adams and Colfer fan sites before issuing the press release: "Actor Simon Jones [who played Arthur Dent in the original radio series, and the TV adaptation] recorded a special message. We went to the fan sites first to get them excited and to explain that it’s a sanctioned thing, and that Douglas’ estate and his widow are happy to have it happening. They want to reach out to new readers and younger readers." Prior added that only one sequel by Colfer was planned "for now".Around 16 million copies of the Hitchhiker books have been sold around the world, with translation into 35 languages.
Several people wrote to ask what I thought about Eoin Colfer writing a new Hitchhiker's book -- for example,http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_a ... 773155.eceIn regard to the above, did they ask you to do it, and would you have accepted if they had?Nobody asked me to do it, but then, when Douglas asked me if I'd like to adapt Life, The Universe and Everything for radio I said no, and that was with Douglas alive and asking. (Dirk Maggs did it, and did an excellent job.) It seemed a thankless task.I like Eoin very much, and wish him well with the book. He'll probably write a sixth Hitchhiker's book with more enthusiasm, and certainly faster, than Douglas would have done. But it won't be a Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's book.For the record, if I don't get around to writing a sequel to something while I'm alive, I'd very much rather that nobody else does it once I'm dead. It should exist in your head or in Lucien's library, or in fanfic. But that's me, and not every author feels the same way.
SFX a écrit :Posthumous publishing is nothing new, but whether you think it’s ignoble or not rather depends on your relationship to the original material. Like, will you devour literally anything with a Wookiee in it, or are you a “just the three original movies” connoisseur?You could look at Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert’s prolongation of Dune as the happy continuation of a family business, blessing given by the patriarch; or as a money-spinning exercise in colouring in all the obvious bits left knowingly blank by the original author. Then again, it’s hard to fault the work of Christopher Tolkien. Move away from book lines mixed with bloodlines, to the likes of Tarzan, Cthulhu, or Holmes, and things get properly messy. This is franchise land, where the original texts get buried by posthumous invention Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones weren’t all part of a single, magical pantheon when HP was alive, and Holmes only came to constantly sport that deerstalker after he hit the big screen, but in the minds of many that’s what they’re all about now. It’s enough to make a purist swoon, even if such tinkering bears the ineffable stamp of mythology in the making.The fact that the full title of Eoin Colfer’s book is Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Part Six of Three And Another Thing... leads us to think that this most quintessentially British space comedy is heading the way of Starbucks (whether or not it’s ironically acknowledging that by sporting such a monstrous moniker is by the by).A certain lifelessness is the hallmark of the post-mortem franchise. It’s a bit like religion: the holy men seek to preserve what’s already there. Okay, no heretics get burnt, but no new ground is broken either. Many jokes about towels and lemon-slice-wrapped gold bricks and Major Cows are presented for our enjoyment. All the jokes are delivered well, for Colfer, creator of criminal genius/techno fairies saga Artemis Fowl writes in an engaging manner, but the book lacks the mad imaginativeness of Adams (though again, it could be said his last two books in the series were also heading this way). This is a book with a beat, and it goes “character banter, character banter, aside from The Book” and that makes it predictable. Good comedy is not predictable.The story is upbeat. Arthur and co are rescued from an Earth facing imminent destruction (again) by Zaphod and whisked off on an adventure that takes in the last colony of humans, Vogon pedantry, and Thor the Thunder God. And it all end... well, kind of well. Is this right? Part of the reason Adams’s books were so amusing was that they exhibited such crushing misery at the inability of sentient beings to get their act together. There’s little of that here. Yes, Adams said he wanted to finish the saga on a more upbeat note, but with Mostly Harmless published in 1992, he wasn’t exactly rushing to get it done. Despair was his thing; there’s a happy Vogon in this book, for heaven’s sake!With its mythological concerns and cheerful ending, And Another Thing... is more Tom Holt than Douglas Adams. That’s no bad thing, but they’re certainly not the same thing. Still, Hitchhiker’s fans, of which there are millions, will no doubt buy it by the ton. We suspect this is not the end.
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