Does it make a difference when authors step into another's shoes?

Guest blogger Jason Sanford often rants on his website at www.jasonsanford.com. His fiction has been published in Interzone, Year's Best SF 14, Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pindeldyboz, and other places, and has won the 2008 Interzone Readers' Poll and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship.

So a month back I wrote a snitty little post on why I wouldn't read And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer, which is the newly authorized sequel to Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I ...