THE SALMON OF DOUBT: HITCHHIKING THE GALAXY ONE LAST TIME
Book ID/图书代码： 04300012B53848
English Summary/英文概要： On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy—which includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfiction—Douglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as his short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters. In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boy’s first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans can’t make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在某種程度上,沒有任何一部書能超越這本《The Salmon of Doubt》，隨同道格拉斯•亞當斯的全面展現，一場令人眩目的，使人捧腹的一段穿越銀河之旅。從一個男孩的初戀情書 (到他最喜歡科幻小說雜誌） 到區分有一個鼻子比例大小的英雄；從用犀牛服攀登乞力馬札羅山，解釋了為什麼美國人不能體面杯茶；從普洛可哈倫樂團，披頭士音樂中找到抒情和崇高的樂趣，以及巴赫對技術的癡迷行徑；從成吉思汗的充滿虛幻，傳奇色彩的私人生活延伸到對Dirk Gently和畢博布魯克斯的訪問：這是一部最讓人難以置信的，最具情趣的，最具才華的，和深入我們這個時代最具價值的社會批評家和思想家的一部未來之作。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：From Publishers WeeklyEdited by Peter Guzzardi and with an introduction by Christopher Cerf, this bittersweet collection comprises letters, fragments of ideas for books, films and TV, ruminations on a diverse array of subjects and a good bit of a final unfinished novel by the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, who died in May of last year. Included are a letter to the editor of a U.K. boy’s magazine (written in 1965, when Adams was 12); a reminiscence about his lifelong love for the Beatles, written when he was in his 40s; a 1991 piece from Esquire entitled "My Nose"; and an undated article for the Independent espousing his preference for whiskey. Also on hand are a q&a in which he identifies the most interesting natural structure as being a "2,000-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News"; a spiritual encounter with a giant manta ray while testing a mechanical diving device at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef; an affecting introduction to P.G. Wodehouse’s unfinished novel, Sunset at Blandings; an account of a Save the Rhino pilgrimage across Africa; ruminations on computerization; and a philosophical address about the authorship of the universe entitled "Is There an Artificial God?" Two sketches "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" from the Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, 1986, are also here, as are 10 chapters from various versions of the title novel-in-progress. National advertising.
About the Author/作者介绍： 道格拉斯•亞當斯（1952年3月11日－2001年5月11日）是英國著名的科幻小說作家，也是幽默諷刺文學的代表人物、第一個成功結合喜劇和科幻的作家。不過，他並不把自己定位為科幻作家，而是喜劇作家，只是把科幻當成喜劇的一種表現方式。同時他也是一位廣播劇作家和音樂家。
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England in 1952. He has written for radio, television and theater and has worked as a hospital reporter, barn builder, radio producer, and script editor. His bestsellers include 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, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
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