The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Book 4

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Published
1 January 1984
Pages
187
ISBN-13
9781509844906
Type
novel
Cover of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

About this book

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, published in 1984 at 187 pages, is the fourth entry, continuing Adams's precision-engineered deadpan take on a universe indifferent to human concerns.

Key facts about So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is a novel by Douglas Adams. Readers have had it since 1984. It runs to 187 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781509844906 to find the main one.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is book 4 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979).

Additionally, Douglas Adams writes Dirk Gently as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Salmon of Doubt is the latest published Douglas Adams book on file, from 2002.

About Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was an English writer and humorist whose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy became one of the most influential comic science fiction works of the twentieth century. See every Douglas Adams book in order.

Its place in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is book 4 in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It follows Life, the Universe and Everything. It is followed by Mostly Harmless. See the full The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reading order.

Moments before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, mild-mannered Englishman Arthur Dent is rescued by his friend Ford Prefect, who turns out to be an alien researcher for a wildly unreliable electronic travel guide called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What began as a BBC radio comedy in 1978 became, with the first novel in 1979, one of science fiction's defining comic voices: absurdist, digressive, and quietly devastating about the universe's total indifference to human concerns, all…

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