And Another Thing covered

They made me dress up. Or at least look less of a tramp. Why? The dress code stated: 'out of this world'. Which apparently means smart, not tramp. Not even interstellar tramp. I dug out my suit. I ironed a shirt (after I spent half an hour at home looking for the iron, wondering if we still had an iron, remembering we did have one but wondering if I'd forgotten what an iron looks like, then finding the iron and wondering what to do with it). I even made a badge with what I thought was a neat slogan: 'My other head's got the brains.' And when I got there, what did I find? People wearing dressing gowns. Some shod with slippers.

Yes, I was at a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy party ... but my suit wasn't even a space suit. Sigh.

Last night Penguin released on an unsuspecting the world the cover for the UK edition of And Another Thing ..., Eoin Colfer's sixth instalment in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.

It was an evening of smoke, cocktails, strange foliage, weird lighting, one teddy bear with two heads and three arms, two silver ladies and a silver fox standing behind a silver-foiled podium. In short, it had everything you could wish for at a launch except for a guest appearance by Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon-6, and a few bottles of that Ol' Janx Spirit to numb your extremities.

I spent the greater part of the evening talking with Matt Wall (runs artemis-fowl.com), John Coxon (secretary of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Hitchhiker's appreciation society) and James Bacon (organiser of this year's Eastercon, where Eoin is making a guest appearance). None of them were wearing dressing gowns, and they were all far too polite to mention how much of an idiot I looked in a suit (unlike Eoin's editor, Alex, who asked why I'd disobeyed instructions and turned up as a tramp ...).

Why don't I just shut up and show you what the cover looks like?

You only had to ask. It looks like this:

 

Colin Brush
Senior Creative Copywriter

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[DaveH]

Yey! A Beeblebear!