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Starship Titanic: Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
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Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic is not great literature. It isn't even great satire or parody. It is... a fun (if short) novel extremely reminiscent of the first books Adams wrote. For anyone who is a fan of the early Adams, Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic is definitely a book worth looking into. Just be warned that it does, on occasion, betray its multi-media roots.
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Starship Titanic was the most recent big project of The Digital Village and Douglas Adams. Its full name is in fact Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, a computer game released Easter 1998 and consequently still available in the shops. Douglas has played an integral part in the writing of the game, being one of the "ideas men". It's for Macs & PCs.
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In Douglas Adam's novel, Life, The Universe and Everything, he included a throw-away joke about the Starship Titanic. Never one to simply throw things away (So Long and Thanks for All the Fish had begun life as a "Doctor Who Episode"), Adams seized upon those couple of lines when work began on an interactive computer game. Naturally, in the modern world of merchandising, the software company wanted a novel to be released at the same time as the game. Since Adams couldn't write the game and the novel at the same time, he commissioned his old friend, Terry Jones (of "Monty Python" fame) to handle the novel writing part of the project. The result is Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones. Oh, and Adams wasn't able to bring out the software at the same time as the novel either.
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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic is a new CD-ROM adventure game. The game has nothing to do with the recent film Titanic, except that they both feature a luxury ship in which something goes badly wrong.
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A book entitled Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, based on the game, was written by Jones. Critical reaction has been lukewarm; the general consensus is that the novel reads like a poor imitation of Adams' style. In an unusual move for a publisher, the contents of the novel -- every word -- has been published on the official Starship Titanic website. The words are in alphabetical order, for convenience in referencing them, although readability suffers somewhat.
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Douglas Adams' third computer game was Starship Titanic. He outlined the game with collaborator Michael Bywater, and scripted most of it himself. It was produced by his company The Digital Village.
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