Starship Titanic Official Strategy Guide - Douglas Adams

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...'s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless), Douglas is also the author of 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detecive Agency' and it's sequel 'The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul', 'Last Chance To See' (a true account of Douglas's tour of the world's endangered animals), as well as the lesser known non-fictions 'Children, Divorce and the Church' and 'The Prostitute in the Family Tree: Discovering Humor and Irony in the Bible'. He also co-wrote 'The Meaning of Liff' (a very funny little book that gives new meanings to words without definitions) with John Lloyd and created several computer games including 'Starship Titanic' (adapted into novel form by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame). At the time of his death Douglas Adams was working on a new... Read review

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Advantages: Good story, even better when read by Terry Jones
Disadvantages: No sequel

..., the first starting on a planet far, far away, where The Greatest Genius The Galaxy has ever known is about to launch his greatest creation, the Greatest Starship Ever Created - although there are plans afoot to scuttle the magnificent ship and claim the insurance. On the ship itself, the artificial inteligence isn't quite as bright as it should be... something is seriously wrong... Meanwhile, on Earth, lives of three unsuspecting folks are about to change forever, as they get caught up in the dastardly scheme. Space battles (followed by repairs), impressivly eccentric robots (with Genuine People Personalities... remember Marvin?), the Oxfordshire police force, killer rabbits and the impressive starship itself add to this Sci-fi / comedy story. Messrs Adams and Jones, if you're reading, any chance of a Titanic II ?... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Funny, witty , uplifting adn weird
Disadvantages: it runs out of pages eventually

...all this, its not quite up there with Douglas Adams' stuff, but I enjoyed it, and if you can hunt it down, or see it sat lonely on a second hand bookstore shelf, check it out.Buy it now if only to taste once again the childhood fantasy of aliens with shiny metal robot butlers and big bold hhgttg concepts.... Read review

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