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The Salmon of Doubt

By Douglas Adams

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| Paperback | 9780345460950

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On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy—which includes seven novels and three co-aContinue

On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy—which includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfiction—Douglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as his short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters.

In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boy’s first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans can’t make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.

Welcome to the wonderful mind of Douglas Adams.


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Critics

  • Gently does it

    The Salmon of Doubt Douglas Adams 336pp, Macmillan, £16.99 James Boswell was taken aback by Samuel Johnson's verdict on Gulliver's Travels: "When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest." So are we - but pa ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A deadline bandit's last hurrah

    The Salmon of Doubt Douglas Adams Macmillan £16.99, pp299 When I was in publishing in the 1980s, hardly a season went by without some wonderful piece of gossip about the brilliant new book Douglas Adams was not writing. These tales were matched by sc ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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    While the unfinished story can't really be commented on (Adams himself planned to abandon it and salvage the [great] ideas), the rest of the book - the collection of articles, interviews, letters and thoughts saved from his Macintosh - is amazing. Simply a great mind. His thoughts on religion often ... (continue)

    While the unfinished story can't really be commented on (Adams himself planned to abandon it and salvage the [great] ideas), the rest of the book - the collection of articles, interviews, letters and thoughts saved from his Macintosh - is amazing. Simply a great mind. His thoughts on religion often echoed my own, but were expressed in such an eloquent and humourous way. Makes me sad that I didn't read Hitchhiker's until after he'd died.

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    halften said on May 30, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • *** This comment contains spoilers! ***

    I have read 5 of the Hitchhiker triology and Douglas Adams has been one of my favourite authors (and wordsmiths) ever since. This' the first book I read about Adams other than the through the proxies of Arthur Dent and Henry Ford. In this last legacy of his we come to know more about Adams' think ... (continue)

    I have read 5 of the Hitchhiker triology and Douglas Adams has been one of my favourite authors (and wordsmiths) ever since. This' the first book I read about Adams other than the through the proxies of Arthur Dent and Henry Ford. In this last legacy of his we come to know more about Adams' thinking on technology, on conservation, and more other miscelleneous topics (like fried eggs, Friday, Feng Shui, sting rays). (one letter to the movie maker in Hollyword was especially funny) (another was a recipe about making proper, English, tea)
    I felt as fortunate to be given this chance to be revealed his legacy as I felt unfortunate that the world is now denied any more of his wit.

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    Archer said on Apr 11, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • This was my first Douglas Adams book, and I love it. He has an extremely endearing way of writing

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    Pia said on Sep 27, 2007 | Add your feedback

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