Ride on time

From Towel

Article: "Ride on Time" written by Peter K Hogan

In the December 1992 issue of VOX magazine.

The article begins:

They said it would never happen -- or at least he did. After eight years Douglas Adams has delivered Mostly Harmless, the fifth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy. Spaceport bookstalls everywhere will be raking in the cash in the weeks to come, because after an eight year lay-off, Douglas Adams has finally written Mostly Harmless, the fifth novel in the "increasingly inaccurately named" Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'trilogy'. It's the book he swore he'd never, never write: "I'd said firmly that I didn't want to do it anymore, which I really didn't for a long time. But then occasionally I'd start having a Hitchhiker-like idea. And then I'd have another one. And it got to the point where I thought, 'Hang on -- who am I punishing here?' What prompted me to go ahead was reading an interview with Paul McCartney who was going out on tour and saying for the first time in years that he was going to do a lot of Beatles songs. And he said he's been through this thing of agonising about it and of suddenly thinking, 'Who says I can't?' I realised that if I actually did want to do another Hitchhiker's book, the only person I had to convince was me. As there were some loose ends that kept bothering me, I thought I'd try to clear them up.""