So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book 4

by Douglas Adams

208 pages

English language

Published June 19, 2020 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:: 978-1-5290-3455-4

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Preceded by: [Life, the Universe and Everything][1]

Including everything you wanted to know about the first three books but never thought to ask.

"HE LOST ALL FAITH IN THE STRAIGHTFORWARD OPERATION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT THE DAY HE GOT UP INTENDING TO CATCH UP WITH SOME READING AND ENDED UP ON A PREHISTORIC EARTH WITH A MAN FROM BETELGEUSE AND A SPACESHIP-LOAD OF ALIEN TELEPHONE SANITISERS...".

Left at the end of LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING with the address for God's Final Message To His Creation, Arthur Dent let this crucial information slip his mind. He tries everything to jog his memory - meditation, mind-reading, hitting himself about the head with blunt objects. But none of it works. Of course, as everyone knows, the answer lies in making life flash before your eyes... ([source][2])

Followed by: [Mostly Harmless][3]

Also contained in:

[The Hitch …

Preceded by: [Life, the Universe and Everything][1]

Including everything you wanted to know about the first three books but never thought to ask.

Followed by: [Mostly Harmless][3]

Also contained in:

[The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts][4]
[The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide][5]

[1]: openlibrary.org/works/OL2163716W [2]: www.douglasadams.com/creations/0671745530.html [3]: openlibrary.org/works/OL2163718W [4]: openlibrary.org/works/OL2163692W [5]: openlibrary.org/works/OL2163713W

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4 stars

I did feel, with Life, the Universe and Everything, that the series was starting to lose it's way somewhat. With this book, though, Adams gets solidly back on track.

It's very different to what has gone before, and this is very much to the book's advantage. Arthur is more of a character this time around and there's visible plot.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is still very much a Hitchhiker's book, but it also demonstrates the value in a series taking the occasional left turn.