The Salmon of Doubt

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTRODUCTION BYTERRY JONES
Douglas Adams changed the face of science líction (to a uniquely and irresistibly funny one) with his cosmically comic növel The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and its classic sequels. Sadly for his countless admirers, he hitched his own ride to the great beyond much too soon. But for anyone who ever laughed out loud at the absurdist adventures of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, chuckled knowingiy at the daffy dennitions detailed in The Meaning ofLijf, or experienced the wonders of encountering endangered species in Last Chance to See, here's a wonderfiil oppor-tunity to revei in the droll wit, ofif-the-wall humor, and keénly inquiring mind of Douglas Adams just one more time.
Culled posthumöusly from Adams s fleet of beloved Macintosh computers, this selection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories ofifers á fascinating and intimate portrait of the multifaceted artist—as a devout Beatles and Bach fan, radical athe-ist,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTRODUCTION BYTERRY JONES
Douglas Adams changed the face of science líction (to a uniquely and irresistibly funny one) with his cosmically comic növel The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and its classic sequels. Sadly for his countless admirers, he hitched his own ride to the great beyond much too soon. But for anyone who ever laughed out loud at the absurdist adventures of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, chuckled knowingiy at the daffy dennitions detailed in The Meaning ofLijf, or experienced the wonders of encountering endangered species in Last Chance to See, here's a wonderfiil oppor-tunity to revei in the droll wit, ofif-the-wall humor, and keénly inquiring mind of Douglas Adams just one more time.
Culled posthumöusly from Adams s fleet of beloved Macintosh computers, this selection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories ofifers á fascinating and intimate portrait of the multifaceted artist—as a devout Beatles and Bach fan, radical athe-ist, enthusiastic technophile, crusading conservationist, and of course delightful wordsmith
Jóin him on an excursion to climb Kilimanjaro . . . dressed in a rhino costume; peek into the priváté life of Genghis Khan—warrior, conqueror, and worfd-class neurotic; root for the harried author s efforts to get a Hitchhikér movie off the ground in Hpllywood; thrill to (and laugh at) the further e^ploits of priváté eye Dirk Gently and two-headed alien Zaphod Beeblebrox. In the immortal words of The Hitchhikers Guide, "Dont panic!"—though our friend Döuglas Adams is gone*, hes left us something very special to remember hirti by. Without a doubt.
"A FITTING .EULOGY TO THE MASTER OF WACKY WORDS AND EVEN WAGIQER TALES . . . Salrnon leaves no doubt as to Adams's lasting Iegacy."
—Entertainment Weekly
"WORTH READING AND EVEN CHERISHING, if only because it's fhe last we'll hear from the master of comic science fiction." — The Newark Star-Ledger Vissza