Buy Starship Titanic, by Terry Jones

Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) plus Terry Jones (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) equals “Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic.”

And it’s good, too.

If anybody’s seen the latest installation of Doctor Who — the Christmas episode where the Doctor ends up waltzing around aboard a starship Titanic — then you’ve got the idea. Well…that’s not quite accurate. Actually, what you have is a completely different idea with a few vague similarities.

Actually, you have the best idea just from these six key terms: Douglas Adams, Terry Jones, Starship Titanic. If you know anything about either of the key parties involved in creating this book and the history of the real Titanic, then you should be able to assemble the general ideas in your head: they are weird, bizarre, and confusing.

It’s a short book, based on the ideas Douglas Adams came up with while working on the computer game of the same name. Terry Adams ended up writing it because…well, that’s all in the introduction.

Really, there’s nothing at all I can say about this book in the way of a review. If you look the zany humor the Douglas Adams and Monty Python put out, you’re likely to enjoy it. If not, you won’t. Suck it up.