From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!kaufman Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: HHGttG and Venus Article-I.D.: yale-com.878 Posted: Sun Feb 13 15:59:02 1983 Received: Wed Feb 16 01:00:56 1983 References: cwruecmp.479 Well, I haven't read Venus, but I did read The Sirens of Titan recently and I was very much struck by the similarity between Sirens and (you guessed it) the HHG. Perhaps we should extend the question to: Is Douglas Adams a sequel to Kurt Vonnegut? (Or something more serious along the same lines) David Kaufman