So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- 204
- Pages
- about 3.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
The fourth Hitchhiker book trades galaxy-hopping for something smaller: a love story built around Arthur. Readers split over that: some find the romance forced and miss the absent members of the old cast; others think this is the one volume with a proper plot. The humour is unchanged, and at about 200 pages it is over quickly. Best for those already fond of the series.
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About the book
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of six books" written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A song of the same name was featured in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 1,170 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 89% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 87 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 1.1K | 93% |
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How long is So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
It has 204 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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