Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic is a science fiction / comedy novel written by Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame). Jones flawlessly imitates Adams’s style by weaving a silly, unpredictable and exciting story of three earthlings that accidently get stranded on a gigantic alien starship with few other passengers and malfunctioning robots aplenty. The Starship Titanic almost broke the economy of the planet that built it and would be blown up if certain crooked officials have there way…and if the bomb ever gets to finish its countdown.
Jones has created a story faithfully in Adams’s style and if readers enjoyed The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy or any of the Monty Python works, should take a fancy to Starship Titanic. The earthling characters adapt to their respective roles with confusion and competence while the aliens are predictably unpredictable. Who would have thought that Yassaccan guards always shot over the heads of there combatants in a gunfight? The content of this book is a little bit violent, a little bit sexy, a little bit suspenseful and a lot of fun. It certainly a book that teens who enjoy science fiction would get a laugh from.
Jones, Terry (1997) Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic, New York: Ballantine Books.
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