Chapters (30)

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Praise

Praise for
THE SALMON OF DOUBT

“Fortunately . . . we get one last look at Adams’s wonderfully mad universe.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“A bittersweet reminder of what the master could have contributed if only the ride had lasted a few light years longer.”

—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“For devoted fans, this is more than a taste of lost pleasures: it’s a rich, diverse feast, albeit a sadly final one.”

—Scifi.com

“You are on the verge of entering the wise, provoking, benevolent, hilarious, and addictive world of Douglas Adams. Don’t bolt it all whole—as with Douglas’s beloved Japanese food, what seems light and easy to assimilate is subtler and more nutritious by far than it might at first appear.”

—STEPHEN FRY, author of The Liar and Making History: A Novel

“The pieces here bounce with charm. . . . Fans will dig the paranormal but incomplete The Salmon of Doubt itself. . . . A beautiful sendoff, Douglas, wherever you are.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Contains items of rare originality . . . At times, reading Douglas Adams is like watching Isaac Asimov meet P. G. Wodehouse, a twentieth-century humorist Adams venerated. For me, his essay on ‘Sunset at Blandings’ is one of the special pleasures of this volume.”

—London Observer

Don't Panic

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*1 The Meaning of Liff and its successor, The Deeper Meaning of Liff, are books coauthored by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.
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*2 This is socially incorrect. The socially correct way of pouring tea is to put the milk in after the tea. Social correctness has traditionally had nothing whatever to do with reason, logic, or physics. In fact, in England it is generally considered socially incorrect to know stuff or think about things. It’s worth bearing this in mind when visiting.
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Also by Douglas Adams

BOOKS BY DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Life, the Universe and Everything

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Mostly Harmless

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

The Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd)

Last Chance to See
(with Mark Carwardine)

The Deeper Meaning of Liff
(with John Lloyd)

The Salmon of Doubt

Copyright Page

The Salmon of Doubt is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.