It is an unusually optimistic and joyful instalment in the series, with a love story at its heart, while all of the author’s trademark wit and invention is in full flow.
The result is a novel full of ingenious strangeness, reading, as Neil Gaiman describes it, as though it has ’not so much been plotted as stumbled upon’. The author, who famously enjoyed the ’whooshing sound’ made by deadlines as they flew by, had to be locked in his hotel room until the book was finished – passing each page to his editor as it was written.
It was also a book produced against the odds. Arthur, returning home from his wild adventures with Zaphod Beeblebrox and Ford Prefect, has picked up a lot of Adams’s world-weariness. Buy So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhikers Trilogy) by Adams, Douglas from Amazons Fiction Books Store. This edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Neil Gaiman. Adams had recently returned to England from California, following an unsuccessful attempt to get his first novel made into a film. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth installment in Douglas Adams' bestselling cult classic, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'trilogy'. Featuring exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.Īn oddity in a series known for its oddness, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish owes much of its surreal atmosphere to the circumstances in which it was written. Part four of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Douglas Adams author God person So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish book Marvin character apologies concept 02 Share.
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