So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

“The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings. 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. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. 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. He still has the ability to fly whenever he lets his thoughts wander.“A madcap adventure.Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.” ( United Press International)īack 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. Arthur thinks that Fenchurch is somehow connected to him and to the Earth's destruction.

Inside his inexplicably undamaged home, Arthur finds a gift-wrapped bowl inscribed with the words 'So long and thanks for all the fish', into which he puts his Babel Fish. Arthur becomes curious about Fenchurch, but he is dropped off before he can ask more questions. Russell explains that Fenny, who is sitting in a drugged state in the back seat of the car, became delusional after worldwide mass hysteria, in which everyone hallucinated 'big yellow spaceships' (the Vogon destructor ships that 'demolished' the Earth). He hitches a lift with a man named Russell and his sister Fenchurch (nicknamed 'Fenny'). He has been gone for several years, but only a few months have passed on Earth. Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book 4) Kindle Edition by Douglas Adams (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,296 ratings Book 4 of 6: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Teachers' pick See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. He appears to be in England on Earth, even though he had seen the planet destroyed by the Vogons. While hitchhiking through the galaxy, Arthur Dent is dropped off on a planet in a rainstorm. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams: 9780345479969 : Books Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series A madcap adventure. A song of the same name was featured in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'trilogy of six books' written by Douglas Adams.