Douglas Adams' Last Book

mixedbag writes "A BBC news article suggests that a sixth book in Douglas Adams's Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series will be published next May. It will be unfinished from files found of his computer. The title is to be A Salmon of Doubt."

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Reminds me of...

[Satai]

...a review Mr. Cranky wrote of Almost Heroes.

"Almost Heroes" is such an abomination that one actually wishes Chris Farley had kicked off long before he got anywhere near this script. The filmmakers would have been kinder to Farley's memory by taking a collective piss on his rotting corpse."

Let's hope that the new Adams book is a better experience. Don't most authors include something in their wills about not publishing unfinished materials?

When I die

[Chairboy]

When I die, I hope they publish all those half completed letters to Penthouse I was working on.

"I never thought this could happen to me, but when I saw the six buxom cheerleaders knocking at my door..."

Aha!

[Grendel Drago]

http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2U13.html

1. The Answer to the Question is 42.
2. Marvin, amongst numerous other complaints, claimed to have a brain the size of a planet.
3. Marvin, like other robots, has a computer-based brain.
4. The Earth is a planet.
5. The Earth was built by the mice as a computer, the only such planet or computer ever built.
6. By (2), (3), (4), and (5), the Earth must therefore be Marvin's brain.
7. The sole purpose of the Earth's program was to discover the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
8. Marvin once announced that he had, in a moment of boredom, found the square root of -1, something never before done in the history of the universe, and previously believed by all sensible hyper-intelligent beings to be possibly the most difficult task to undertake, as it was dependent on the very structure of the Universe. (Most normally- intelligent beings gave up, dismissing it as impossible.)
9. Marvin announced that he felt a brief, but deep, sense of satisfaction after having accomplished the achievement in (8).
10. The Earth was apparently destroyed just as the purpose of its program was fulfilled, and a Question had been found.
11. By (7), the Earth computer would have felt a deep sense of satisfaction at having achieved the task it was designed to fulfil.
12. By (10), the sensation in (11) would have been brief.
13. By (6), and by the fact that emotional feelings are based in the brain, the feelings in (9), (11) and (12) are the same single feeling.
14. Finding the Ultimate Question was deemed to be the single most difficult task undertaken by hyper-intelligent beings in the history of the universe, as it was dependant on the very structure of the Universe -- as well as Life and Everything.
15. By (6), (8), (13), and (14), Marvin (the Earth) had clearly solved the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
16. By (8) and (15), the Question is "What is the square root of -1?".
17. By (1) and (16), the square root of -1 is 42.

Pretty obvious, in hindsight...

-grendel drago