โ Scribed by Douglas Adams; Terry Jones
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The Starship Titanic was the ship in which nothing could possibly go wrong. It was the greatest ship that had ever been built, and it was designed by the greatest genius the universe had ever known. On the night before the launch, said genius, Leovinus, decides to visit the ship in private one last time. To his increasing panic, he realizes that corners have been cut in the its construction: things are still unfinished, systems are not working properly, and, worse of all, Titania, the ship's artificial intelligence, is half dismembered.
When the time for the launch comes, the unfinished ship undergoes Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure and disappears before the eyes of millions of Blerontians. What they don't know is that the Starship Titanic reappears in another corner of the universe, landing on a little planet called Earth. Three humans, Dan, Lucy and Nettie, board it before it departs again. And thats when the story really begins.
The existence of the Starship Titanic began as a side note on Douglas Adams' Life, The Universe and Everything. It was at first just a quick digression, but Adams ended up developing a full plot based on it. The plot was turned into a computer game, and when Adams suggested a novelization to the publishers, he was told that the game and the novel would have to be released at the same time. Being busy working on the game, he couldnt write the novel, and thats how he ended up asking his friend Terry Jones of Monty Python fame to write it. As a result, Terry Jones wrote, Adams says in the introduction, an altogether sillier, naughtier and more wonderful novel than I would have done.
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