So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)

by Douglas Adams

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“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.

God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. What else is new?

“The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible.”—The Boston Globe

• ISBN10: 0345391837
• ISBN13: 9780345391834
• Publish Date: 29 March 1999 (first published 23 November 1984)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Del Rey Books
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780345391834

Reviews

[celinenyx]

Quite surprisingly, the majority of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is set on earth. And maybe even more surprising is that the majority revolves around a love story. Well, of course this is still Douglas Adams we're talking about, so don't expect any romantic conventions. Filled to the brim with Adams's signature wit, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish might be my favourite of his so far. Rather than relying on outrageous alien planets, it shows the absurdity of our own world.