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One is never alone with a rubber duck : Douglas Adams's absurd fictional universe / by Marilette van der Colff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van der Colff, Marilette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001--Criticism and interpretation.
- Adams, Douglas.
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (109 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What do existential elevators, sentient mattresses, paranoid androids, humans and other aliens have in common? For one thing, they want answers. The fact (yes fact) that there are no answers (except, perhaps, for "42") causes some humans (and other aliens) to face this empty madness we call life with Sisyphus-like defiance. Others choose to sulk or skulk or annihilate themselves. Another thing these creatures have in common is that they are all born mad, "and some remain so". One is ...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [89]-93) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-77682-7
- 9786612776823
- 1-4438-2438-0
- OCLC:
- 697952849
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