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Douglas Adams, A new book? [message #112843] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:55 Go to next message
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Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 19:55:36 EST
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I've heard a rumour that Douglas Adams has a new book in the "Hitchhikers
Guide" theme. If so what are the details ( title, publisher, paperback?
author...) and what's it like? Sorry if this has been done already but
I'm new here ( excuse #42 :-).

Thanx in advance	
	

			Ewan Tempero
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Re: Douglas Adams, A new book? [message #112852 is a reply to message #112843] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 13:13:29 EST
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<---
There is indeed a new Douglas Adams book, the "*Fourth* Book in the 
Hitchhikers Trilogy", entitled "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish". 
(Harmony Books, a division of Crown Publishers, NY, 1985.  Price?  
I don't know, mine was a present and the price was deleted).  

In summary, I was disappointed.  Perhaps it is difficult to keep up 
the frenetic zaniness of the earlier books, and although I
would never accuse Adams of writing clear and unambiguous
prose, this volume is particularly unfocussed.  Even the celebrated
non sequitors and incongruities are in short supply.  

Ford Prefect is present (though in a diminished role), and there is a 
major new character, an attractive lady named Fenchurch, and a major 
new minor character, Wonko the Sane, who lives in a house whose roof

	"...folded back on itself like something that M.C.Escher, had
	he been given to hard nights on the town, which it is no part
	of this narrative's purpose to suggest was the case, though it
	is sometimes hard, looking at his pictures, particularly the
	one with all the awkward steps, not to wonder, might have
	dreamed up after having been on one,..."

Advice?  Wait for the paperback, then buy it to occupy a short plane trip.

Bob Langridge				(UUCP: [...]!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl)
Computer Graphics Laboratory		(ARPA: rl@ucbvax  
926 Medical Sciences			          or
University of California		       langridge@sumex-aim)
San Francisco
CA  94143
Re: Douglas Adams, A new book? [message #112854 is a reply to message #112843] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I saw a published comment on the forthcoming fourth book in
the Hitchhiker's trilogy.  The thing I noted about it was
that the collection is *still* (explicitly by the author)
a trilogy!

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Ed Gould
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Re: Douglas Adams, A new book? [message #112867 is a reply to message #112843] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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<<>>

	An interesting note here:  Adams' book was copyrighted 1985 ...
This sounds OK now, but they were selling this book as early as November
of 1984...

	Does this mean that his book was public domain before yesterday?

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Re: Douglas Adams, A new book? [message #112878 is a reply to message #112843] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I was gifted with this novel for Christmas and I would definitely agree
that it is a good (and fast) read - assuming that you enjoy the Adams
style.  However, I think that this story has more of a moral character than
the earlier novels - which seemed to be nothing more than fun and fluff.
I won't prejudice anyone by giving my views on the intent of the Epilogue
but I would be interested in hearing what others thought Adams was trying
to say.


Cheers...

	Jim Jenal		(aka ...!scgvaxd!mss!jpj)
	Mayfield Senior School	( "  ...!ihnp4!mss!jpj)
Re: Douglas Adams, A new book? [message #112879 is a reply to message #112843] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Under the new US Copyright law, a copyright notice is not defective if
it gives a year one year in the future from the actual year of
publication.  However, the term of the copyright runs from the actual
year of publication.  There is also no problem if the year is correct or
is earlier than the actual year of publication.  If the year given is
more than one year after the actual year of publication, it is as if no
notice were put on the book.  However, there are number of circumstances
under which omission of notice is not fatal so you still can't tell if
its completely in the public domain.

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Re: Douglas Adams, A new book? [message #112915 is a reply to message #112843] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:56 Go to previous message
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It is true, there is a fourth book in the Hitchiker`s trilogy (and
that's exactly what it says, don't blame me).

In it, Lester Dent (no that's Arthur, isn't it; a truly savage error)
anyway, Arthur is back on the reconstructed earth, trying to a) get laid
b) figure out where the dolphins went, and c) try to explain why he
looks eight years older than he did ``yesterday''.

I liked it a lot.

Charlie Martin

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