Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic [Lingua Inglese]: A Novel - Brossura

Jones, Terry

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ISBN 10: 0345368436 ISBN 13: 9780345368430

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 1998

Riassunto

Seconds after its initial launch, Starship Titanic undergoes SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) and vanishes, only to mysteriously turn up at the home of Dan and Lucy Gibson, residents of a remote, little-known planet called Earth. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Terry Jones is one of the original creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus. He is also a film and television director, a scriptwriter, a medieval scholar, and author of various children's books, including the award-winning The Saga of Erik the Viking and (with Michael Palin) Dr. Fegg's Encyclopedia of All World Knowledge. He lives in London.

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None of them could have told you how long the attack went on for, but it seemed like several lifetimes to the three figures huddled on the Captain's Bridge. The noise, the vibration, the crashing and bucking of the giant Starship went on and on. . . .

When it was all over, they waited and then stood up, trembling and shaking. The first wave was returning to the main fleet; meanwhile, a second wave was peeling off.

"Here they come again!" yelled Dan, and he and Lucy ducked down once more beneath the console. But The Journalist remained standing, with a curious expression on his face.

Lucy and Dan braced themselves for the gunfire . . . but it didn't come. Instead there was an odd "rather unmartial" banging on the hull of the ship.

"Yassaccans!" muttered The Journalist. Both Lucy and Dan assumed this was another alien expletive and remained under cover, but then The Journalist nudged Dan and said: "Look!"

Dan cautiously put his head above the console and peered out of the window: the second wave of spaceships had pulled up all around the Starship, and an army of short and stocky spacesuited figures were swarming over the hull, hammering and welding as they went.

"What the blazes?" asked Dan.

"They're repairing the damage," explained The Journalist. "Yassaccans are like that! They hate injuring hardware!"

Meanwhile the voice boomed out over the loudspeakers again: "We shall recommence our attack as soon as the first damage has been repaired! If you do not surrender, we shall board and dispose of everyone we find!"

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345368436
• ISBN 13: 9780345368430
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256