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The Salmon of Doubt
The front cover of the UK first hardcover edition of The Salmon of Doubt.
Front cover from the first UK hardcover edition
Author Douglas Adams
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Dirk Gently
Genre(s) Humour
Science fiction novel
Publisher UK: William Heinemann Ltd., US: Pocket Books
Publication date 2002
Media type Print (Paperback and Hardcover), Audiobook (cassette and compact disc)
Pages 326 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-330-32312-1
Preceded by The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

The Salmon of Doubt (full title: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time) is a posthumous collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams, published in 2001. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Dirk Gently (real name Svlad Cjelli also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke Laughter and provide Amusement Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890 Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes Paperback books See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous Fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. English editions of the book were published in the USA and UK in May 2002, exactly one year after the author's death. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It consists largely of a compilation of essays, most of which have a technological edge, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working when he died (and from which the collection gets its title, a reference to the Celtic myth of the Salmon of Wisdom). Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt The Salmon of Wisdom or Salmon of Knowledge ( bradán feasa) is a creature figuring in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

Contents

The book

In a 1998 interview with Matt Newsome,[1] Adams commented as to whether The Salmon of Doubt was going to be a Dirk Gently book or a continuation of the Hitchhiker's Guide series:

“ Adams: The thing with Dirk was that I felt I had lost contact with that character, I couldn't make that book viable, which is why I said, "Okay, let's go off and do something else. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Dirk Gently (real name Svlad Cjelli also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series " Then looking back at all the ideas that were there in Salmon of Doubt, I looked at it again about a year later and suddenly realised what it was that I'd been getting wrong, which was that these are essentially much more like Hitch-Hiker ideas and not like Dirk Gently ideas.

So, there will come a point I suspect at some point in the future where I will write a sixth Hitch-Hiker book. But I kind of want to do that in an odd kind of way because people have said, quite rightly, that Mostly Harmless is a very bleak book. And it was a bleak book. The reason for that is very simple—I was having a lousy year, for all sorts of personal reasons that I don't want to go into, I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background. And, guess what, it was a rather bleak book!

I would love to finish Hitch-Hiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number. I think that a lot of the stuff which was originally in Salmon of Doubt, was planned into Salmon of Doubt and really wasn't working, I think could be yanked out and put together some new thoughts.

Newsome: Yes, because certainly some people have heard that Salmon of Doubt was now going to be a new Hitch-Hiker book.

Adams: Well, In a sense, because I shall be salvaging some of the ideas I couldn't make work within a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitch-Hiker framework, undergoing necessary changes on the way. And, for old time's sake, I may call it, Salmon of Doubt, I may call it. . . well who knows!

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The actual manuscript of the proposed novel is extremely short and only gives a glimpse of what The Salmon of Doubt would have been. It is composed of the best content out of several drafts (as were many of Adams' books). The book is set a few weeks after the events in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous Fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. A faxed summary reprinted before the text mentions travelling "through the nasal membranes of a rhinoceros, to a distant future dominated by estate agents and heavily armed kangaroos. "

The existing plot involves Dirk Gently, the detective protagonist of two earlier Adams novels, refusing to help find the missing half of a cat, receiving large amounts of money from an unknown client, and then flying to the United States. Dirk Gently (real name Svlad Cjelli also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk The United States of America —commonly referred to as the After refusing the case about the missing half of a cat, Dirk pays a visit to Kate Schechter (who had first appeared in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul). Dirk tells Kate that prior to the potential client, he had been so bored that he had started a habit of dialing his own phone number, and discovered that he'd answered his own call.

The extract from Newsome's full interview reprinted in the book reveals that Adams did not like the ending he wrote to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy", and realised that the ideas he had been working on for Salmon of Doubt might work better as a sixth book in that series. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series In the book, Dirk follows around a ginger haired actor; Ford Prefect is described as having ginger-coloured hair, and his disguise during his stay on Earth includes his being an out-of-work actor. Ford Prefect (also called Ix) is a Fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas It is possible that this is him, and forms a link between the two series, or that the text was in a state of metamorphosis from one to the other – but no one will ever know.

There are slight differences in varying editions of the book. The UK edition includes a foreword by Stephen Fry, and the US edition, instead, has an introduction by Christopher Cerf. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957 is an English Humorist, Writer, Wit, Actor, Novelist, filmmaker Christopher Cerf (born August 19, 1941) is a US author composer-lyricist and record and television producer The audiobook edition consists of 7 CDs, mostly read by Simon Jones, but also includes both of the aforementioned introductions, read by their respective authors, as well as the tributes written and read by Professor Richard Dawkins. Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English Actor, most famous for his appearances in the Television and Radio series Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941 is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and Popular science US paperback editions have yet another introduction, written by Terry Jones, and omit some material due to issues with copyright. For other uses see Terry Jones (disambiguation. Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh

Dirk Maggs (Above The Title Productions) has been commissioned to complete the story in the forthcoming (autumn 2008) BBC Radio adaptation starring Harry Enfield. Dirk Maggs is a freelance writer and director working across all media Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a novel by Douglas Adams. Harry Enfield (born 30 May, 1961 in Sussex, England) is an English Comedian, Actor and Writer [2] He previously adapted and added a coda to the BBC Radio version of Mostly Harmless. Mostly Harmless is a Novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

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Notes

References

  1. ^ Matt Newsome's 1998 interview with Douglas Adams
  2. ^ BBC - Press Office - BBC Audiobooks concludes deal with Above The Title Productions. Retrieved on 2008-01-18. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor
Preceded by:
 Series:
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Dirk Gently series

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous Fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently (real name Svlad Cjelli also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk The following is a list of works that were published or distributed Posthumously (after the parties involved in its creation died The Salmon of Wisdom or Salmon of Knowledge ( bradán feasa) is a creature figuring in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.
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