So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
| Author | Douglas Adams |
|---|---|
| Published | 1984 |
| Pages | 200 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The fourth Hitchhiker volume, and the odd one out: Arthur Dent comes home to an Earth demolished in book one and now inexplicably there again, and the book becomes a love story set mostly in England. The volume where Adams was more interested in a person than in a joke about the galaxy, which is exactly why it divides readers. |
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, S tier in Sci-fi — Must reads, under its five-volume Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy entry.
About this edition
Worth reading in sequence: the payoff of the book’s central discovery about the dolphins depends on remembering how the first book opened.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — where this is listed, in the top tier.
- Douglas Adams — the author.
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — volume one, already read.
- Life, the Universe and Everything — volume three.
- Mostly Harmless — volume five.
- Science Fiction — the genre.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.