Editing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (section)

=== ''And Another Thing...'' ===
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It was announced in September 2008 that [[Eoin Colfer]], author of ''[[Artemis Fowl (series)|Artemis Fowl]],'' had been commissioned to write the sixth instalment<!--"instalment" (one 'l') is a British spelling, please do not change it.--> entitled ''And Another Thing...'' with the support of Jane Belson, Adams's widow.<ref name="book6">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm|title=New Hitchhiker's author announced|date=16 September 2008|access-date=17 September 2008|publisher=BBC News |work=Entertainment/Arts}}</ref><ref name="reuters_book6">{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSLH9268320080917?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69 | title=Hitchhiker's Guide series to ride again | publisher=[[Thomson Reuters]] | date=17 September 2008 | access-date=17 September 2008 | last=Griffiths | first=Peter}}</ref> The book was published by [[Penguin Books]] in the UK and [[Hyperion (publisher)|Hyperion]] in the US in October 2009.<ref name="book6" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/17/douglasadams|title=Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker's Guide book|date=17 September 2008|access-date=17 September 2008|work=Culture – Books |location=UK|author=Flood, Alison}}</ref>

The story begins as death rays bear down on Earth, and the characters awaken from a virtual reality. Zaphod picks them up shortly before they are killed, but completely fails to escape the death beams. They are then saved by [[Wowbagger|Bowerick Wowbagger]], the Infinitely Prolonged, whom they agree to help kill. Zaphod travels to Asgard to get [[Thor (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)|Thor]]'s help. In the meantime, the Vogons are heading to destroy a colony of people who also escaped Earth's destruction, on the planet Nano. Arthur, Wowbagger, Trillian and Random head to Nano to try to stop the Vogons, and on the journey, Wowbagger and Trillian fall in love, making Wowbagger question whether or not he wants to be killed. Zaphod arrives with Thor, who then signs up to be the planet's God. With Random's help, Thor almost kills Wowbagger. Wowbagger, who merely loses his immortality, then marries Trillian.

Thor then stops the first Vogon attack and apparently dies. Meanwhile, Constant Mown, son of Prostetnic Jeltz, convinces his father that the people on the planet are not citizens of Earth, but are, in fact, citizens of Nano, which means that it would be illegal to kill them. As the book draws to a close, Arthur is on his way to check out a possible university for Random, when, during a hyperspace jump, he is flung across alternate universes, has a brief encounter with Fenchurch, and ends up exactly where he would want to be. And then the Vogons turn up again.

In 2017 it was adapted for radio as the ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases#The Hexagonal Phase|Hexagonal Phase]]'' of the radio series, with its premiere episode first transmitted on 8 March 2018<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05l1s3f | title=BBC Radio 4 - Funny in Four, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v379k | title=BBC Radio 4 - the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}</ref> (exactly forty years, to the day, from the first episode of the first series, the Primary Phase<ref>{{cite web | url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-returns-with-the-original-cast/ | title=The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy returns—with the original cast| year=2018}}</ref>).