Milliways: the sequel to Infocom’s H2G2 that never was

Andy Baio has posted an interesting article based on a shared network drive that Infocom used in 1989.

Infocom, of course, is/was the company behind such text adventures — sorry, interactive fiction titles — as the Zork series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and my personal favourite Planetfall. Baio’s article gives us a piece of history that is Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the unreleased sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

It is a fairly long article, but well worth reading, as are the comments at the end of it. Doubly interesting is the question that it raises, somewhat unintentionally, about what constitutes (good) journalism and what one should do if one were to find a pot of gold like Baio has here stumbled upon.

I have no answers, as usual. Just observations.