Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A NovelArguably the greatest collaboration in the whole history of comedy! Bestselling author Douglas Adams wrote the storyline based on his CD-ROM game of the same name (as this novel, not as him, obviously). Terry Jones of Monty Python wrote the book. In the nude! Parents be warned! Most of the words in this book were written by a naked man! So. You want to argue with that? All right, we give in. Starship Titanic is the greatest, most fabulous, most technologically advanced interstellar cruise line ever built. It is like a cross between the Queen Mary, the Chrysler Building, Tutankhamen's tomb, and Venice. Furthermore, it cannot possibly go wrong. . . . Sadly, however, seconds after its launch it undergoes SMEF, or Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure. And disappears. Except, everything's got to be somewhere. Coming home that night, on a little known planet called Earth, Dan and Lucy Gibson find something very large and very, very shiny sticking into their house. . . |
Contents
Section 1 | 2 |
Section 2 | 4 |
Section 3 | 8 |
Section 4 | 13 |
Section 5 | 16 |
Section 6 | 29 |
Section 7 | 36 |
Section 8 | 42 |
Section 18 | 133 |
Section 19 | 145 |
Section 20 | 147 |
Section 21 | 157 |
Section 22 | 166 |
Section 23 | 182 |
Section 24 | 186 |
Section 25 | 190 |
Section 9 | 49 |
Section 10 | 53 |
Section 11 | 64 |
Section 12 | 82 |
Section 13 | 95 |
Section 14 | 105 |
Section 15 | 113 |
Section 16 | 120 |
Section 17 | 127 |
Section 26 | 199 |
Section 27 | 206 |
Section 28 | 211 |
Section 29 | 217 |
Section 30 | 222 |
Section 31 | 230 |
Section 32 | 238 |
Section 33 | 245 |
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