And Another Thing: Proof - Code

I was lucky enough to recieve special edition proof of the 1st half of the new H2G2 book 'And Another Thing..'

Mine is numbered 108/42.

Well I havn't read it all yet, so this is not a review. I haven't finished the others yet.

This is, though, a decipering of the code across the tops of the pages which would be so familiar to Artemis Fowl fans, of which I count myself as one. I have signed copies of all 6 of them including a 1st edition of the 1st AF book and have met Eoin Colfer twice. [Edit: now 3 times.]

So here goes:

greetings hyperintelligent beings possibly artemis fowl fans as you have successfully deciphered this code.
or perhaps you have now been successful in your interpreting efforts and i could insult you in several languages and you would think i was ordering pizza or listing the mammals beginning with p found in the planet lamuellas southern hemisphere which would be another laugh at your expense as the only creature beginning with the letter p in southern lamuella is the pspottea psiblorb which is a nocturnal telepathic mollusc and not a mammal at all.
if you are indeed an artemis reader then this is possibly the first time you have dipped a toe tentacle or flipper into the hitchhikers galaxy and you are wondering is there anything here for you.
should you investigate further or turn your ship around and set course for the familiar dimensions explored in the artemis series.
my advice to you would be to stay for if you do then you will be trapped here forever.
not trapped in a bad way like the innocent college student who while travelling in his gap year through an exotic country wore a woven crown of lentils to a street parade where lentil headgear was forbidden due to an ancient folk tale which stressed the unlucky consequences of lentil wearing during mardi gras and now languishes in a small cell with no air conditioning but plenty of running water.
no rather trapped in a good way slightly obsessive way like the young irish boy who read the hitchhikers guide over and over again because he was convinced it was talking to him alone and there were secret messages in its pages that only he could understand.
that kind of good healthy trapped.
honestly.
does anyone else smell burning plastic.
there is much to the hitchhikers guide to be admired and appreciated.
i was first repelled towards h2g2 by the overblown force fields of eighties scifi movies.
much as i enjoyed these undeniably spectacular spectacles i did find myself growing a little jaded of all the worthy space captains and reluctant chosen ones.
when oh when i wondered would someone dare to boldly poke fun at this lumbering genre.
and then like an answer to a barely formed prayer along came douglas adams and the hitchikers guide to the galaxy which attacked the big event movies with gleeful tenderness.
as far as we were concerned we being scifi fans it was fine for douglas to have a go at our genre because he obviously loved it as much as we did.
its a bit like having a pain in the neck little brother.
its okay for family to label him a dimwit but let the next door neighbours do it and the next thing you know bottles of milk are going missing off the doorstep spraypaints murphys go home on the neighbours front door which was a git misguided as their name was murphy and they were home.
if there are indeed any artemis fowl fans reading this all i ask is that you trust me enough to seek out the first hitchhikers guide to the galaxy book which in the interest of easy seeking called the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and read chapter one.
would i mislead you.
werent all those artemis fowl books good.
except for the two that were brilliant and the one with the subluminal messages on the cover.
not my idea.
if you do trust me enough to read h2g2 ch1 then you will be richly rewarded not with pound coins or any recognized currency before you start writing in but in enjoyment enlightenment and a permanent skewing of your attitude towards life the universe and everything.
you will split your sides gills and possibly pants laughing.
you will stroke your chin in intellectual type ponderings and you will type a letter of thanks to me for setting your phaser to pun and your course to barnards star.
and of course you will finally get all those injokes for example that barnards star one in the last sentence and finally realize why your dad and all his mates crack up every time someone mentions the number forty two.
one more thing fowl fans.
without h2g2 there would never have been an artemis fowl.
maybe i would have thought about being funny and maybe i would have written in the scifi fantasy genre but i never would have dared to put those two maybes together.
then douglas adams showed me that only was everything possible everything was probable.
another injoke.
read h2g2 1 immediately.