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Last Time Round the Galaxy.
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, by Douglas Adams; Macmillan, 2002, $45.
DOUGLAS ADAMS wrote of a universe which was vast, stupid, cruel, unfair, and often blisteringly funny. In other words, he wrote of a universe much like the one we live in. The stupidity, cruelty and unfairness of our own universe were demonstrated in May 2001, when Adams, at the age of fifty-one, died quickly and unexpectedly of a heart attack after visiting a gym in Los Angeles. This book is many uncollected writings, snippets, ideas and the first quarter of a much-promised, but never-delivered new novel.
Perhaps some measure of Adams' popularity and ...
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