DOUGLAS ADAMS'S STARSHIP TITANIC
From the minds of Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Terry Jones Monty Python comes Starship Titanic, the hilarious novelization of the third-best adventure game of 1999.
Welcome on board the Starship Titanic.
The Ship that Cannot Possibly Go Wrong.
At the centre of the galaxy, a vast, unknown civilization is preparing for an event of epic proportions: the launch of the greatest, most gorgeous, most technologically advanced spaceship ever built ndash; the Starship Titanic.
An Earthling would see the ship as something really, really big, but rather less provincial onlookers would recognize it as the design of Leovinus, the galaxy rsquo;s most renowned architect. Before the launch Leovinus is having one last little look round and begins to find that things just aren rsquo;t right: poor workmanship, cybersystems out of control, robots walking into doors. How could this have happened?
The following morning, while the galaxy rsquo;s media looks on, the fabulous ship eases away from the construction dock, picks up speed, sways a little, wobbles a bit, veers wildly and, just before it can do untold damage to everything around it, appears to undergo SMEF Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure . In just ten seconds, the whole stupendous enterprise is over. And our story has just begun . . .
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
ADAMS DOUGLAS
Douglas Adams 1952-2001 nació en Cambridge, Reino Unido, y vivió con su mujer y su hija en Islington, Londres, hasta que se trasladó a Santa Bárbara, California, donde murió inesperadamente. A lo largo de su vida, colaboró activamente con la Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund y la Save the Rhino International. Anagrama ha publicado su «trilogía en cinco partes», formada por Guía del autoestopista galáctico, El restaurante del fin del mundo, La vida, el universo y todo lo demás, Hasta luego, y gracias por el pescado e Informe sobre la Tierra: fundamentalmente inofensiva, y también Dirk Gently, agencia de investigaciones holísticas, Iras celestiales y Mañana no estarán. Aunque inigualable, este autor ha sido comparado con Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, Kurt Vonnegut, Groucho Marx y los fabulosos Monty Python.
