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One of the best lines of SF

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly un significant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

Opening passage from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

During the online interview at the BBC website oibeeb, I got to ask the late Douglas Adams a question.

beeb presents the speaker with question #45 from Roj:

"I heard you were writing a new book, which started as a Dirk Gently novel, how is it going?"


douglas adams says, "Um, that sounds a little like a muddled story. I
started to write a new novel based on Dirk about three or four years ago,
struggled with it for a while and couldn't get it to work which is when I
moved on to The Starship Titanic CD ROM project. When I subsequently looked
at the ideas in the abandoned Dirk Gently novel I thought that the ideas
were terrifically good but that they probably belonged in a Hitch-Hiker
novel rather than a Dirk Gently novel, hence the problem. That means that I
will probably write another Hitch-Hiker novel one day but it will not be
the next novel I write"

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