Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
by Terry Jones ; Douglas Adams
ISBN: 0345423542
ISBN-13: 9780345423542
Format: Paperback
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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
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