We've had a bit of time now to digest the news that children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series. Colfer's famous for his best-selling Artemis Fowl novels, but now he's taken up the mantle of our dearly departed leader whose last last Hitchhiker book, Mostly Harmless, was written over 16 years ago. Is this a good idea or not? What do you reckon?

There's been plenty of talk on h2g2 about this already but please feeel free to vent/talk/rage/praise some more here. Also, if possible, can we extend the debate a bit to other works of art, other precedents for this sort of thing.

• How you feel about all this? Happy? Excited? Unhappy...?

• Can you think of any similar examples where this has worked (or failed) in the past?

• Is Colfer the right man? Is his 'tone' suitable?

• If not Colfer, who would you have liked to see pick up from where DNA left off?

• In fact, is anyone really up to the task?

• Should we just wait and see what the book's like before condemning it or is it perfectly valid to criticise the idea?