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Starship Titanic

by Terry Jones ; Douglas Adams

ISBN: 0345368436
ISBN-13: 9780345368430
Format: Paperback

Summary

A great architect on a far-off planet develops an idea for the universe's largest and most advanced spaceship, the Titanic. Given its name, it should come as no surprise that the whole thing is a massive disaster. When the ship takes off with only the architect and a journalist onboard, the two must contend with an assortment of cranky robot staff members and a ship's parrot with a mind of its own, among other distractions. And the three passengers that they pick up on Earth may just be the last straw.

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"Both Jones and Adams possess impressive comic credentials, so there are some amusing moments-but otherwise it's pretty thin and familiar fare."

   -- Kirkus

"There are a good many chuckles to be had before the end of 'Starship Titanic', with a few belly laughs tossed in for good measure."    -- Tim Sullivan

   -- Washington Post Book World

"While Jones successfully mimics Adams's antic style, everything else that made the Hitchhiker series memorable is missing; the perfect-pitch sendup of science fiction cliches, the good-natured wildness, the laugh-out-loud-funny stuff."    -- Gerald Jonas

   -- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 1998
Size: 5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.45 pounds
Pages: 256

Publisher's Notes

Arguably 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, Tutankhamens 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. . .

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