![]() ![]() In the end Fate took the decision out of his hands (the bastard) and The Salmon of Doubt was published posthumously as a Dirk Gently book. Legend has it that Adams had the story and the title, but vacillated between whether to make it a Hitch-Hiker’s book or a Dirk Gently one. ![]() Even then, the third half-book in the Dirk Gently trilogy, The Salmon of Doubt, is a slightly odd affair. Hitch-Hiker’s made sport of the fact that it was ‘a trilogy in five parts’, but Dirk Gently could equally be said to be ‘a trilogy in two-and-a-half parts’, which is just as funny, but in a slightly sad way. And to be brutally honest, it’s hardly an even distribution of plaudits, because Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency will pretty much always be known as Douglas Adams other book series. But he did alas, and so, with the exception of a few non-fiction pieces, the printed output of perhaps the greatest ever British sci-fi humorist is restricted to The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. If Douglas Adams hadn’t passed away at the tragically young age of 48, the chances are that we’d have seen a great many more new creations from his ‘digital writing system’. ![]()
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