The Salmon of Doubt - Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Zusatztext “A fitting eulogy to the master of wacky words and even wackier tales . . .  Salmon leaves no doubt as to Adams’s lasting legacy.” — Entertainment Weekly “Worth reading and even cherishing! if only because it’s the last we’ll hear from the master of comic science fiction.” — The Star-Ledger  “You are on the verge of entering the wise! provoking! benevolent! hilarious! and addictive world of Douglas Adams. Don’t bolt it all whole—as with Douglas’s beloved Japanese food! what seems light and easy to assimilate is subtler and more nutritious by far than it might at first appear.” —Stephen Fry! author of The Liar and Making History: A Novel Informationen zum Autor Douglas Adams  was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of  The Hitchhiker’s   Guide to the Galaxy : radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001. Klappentext "A fitting eulogy to the master of wacky words and even wackier tales . . . Salmon leaves no doubt as to Adams's lasting legacy."-Entertainment Weekly With an introduction to the introduction by Terry Jones Douglas Adams changed the face of science fiction with his cosmically comic novel The Hitchhiker's 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. Culled posthumously from Adams's fleet of beloved Macintosh computers, this selection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories offers a fascinating and intimate portrait of the multifaceted artist and absurdist wordsmith. Join Adams on an excursion to climb Kilimanjaro . . . dressed in a rhino costume; peek into the private life of Genghis Khan-warrior and world-class neurotic; root for the harried author's efforts to get a Hitchhiker movie off the ground in Hollywood; thrill to the further exploits of private eye Dirk Gently and two-headed alien Zaphod Beeblebrox. Though Douglas Adams is gone, he's left us something very special to remember him by. Without a doubt. "Worth reading and even cherishing, if only because it's the last we'll hear from the master of comic science fiction."-The Star-Ledger Leseprobe Young Zaphod Plays It Safe A large flying craft moved swiftly across the surface of an astoundingly beautiful sea. From midmorning onward it plied back and forth in great, widening arcs, and at last attracted the attention of the local islanders, a peaceful, seafood-loving people who gathered on the beach and squinted up into the blinding sun, trying to see what was there. Any sophisticated, knowledgable person who had knocked about, seen a few things, would probably have remarked on how much the craft looked like a filing cabinet–a large and recently burgled filing cabinet lying on its back with its drawers in the air and flying. The islanders, whose experience was of a different kind, were instead struck by how little it looked like a lobster. They chattered excitedly about its total lack of claws, its stiff, unbendy back, and the fact that it seemed to experience the greatest difficulty staying on the ground. This last feature seemed particularly funny to them. They jumped up and down on the spot a lot to demonstrate to the stupid thing that they themselves found staying on the ground the easiest thing in the world. But soon this entertainment began to pall for them. After all, since it was perfectly clear to them that the thing was not a lobster, and since their world was blessed with an abundance of things that were lobsters (a good half a dozen of which were now marching succulently up the beach towards them), they saw no reason...

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• Autori: Douglas Adams
• Editore: Del Rey
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.04.2005
• EAN: 9780345455291
• ISBN: 978-0-345-45529-1
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 105 mm x 173 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Del Rey Books; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gala
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy