How could this have happened? And how could this have happened without his knowing?Something somewhere is terribly wrong.On the following day, in an artificial event staged for the media, the Starship Titanic will leave its construction dock under autopilot and, a few days later, make its way to the terminal to pick up passengers for its maiden voyage. With mounting alarm he begins to find things are not unfinished workmanship, cybersystems not working correctly, robots colliding with doors. The night before the launch, Leovinus is prowling around the ship having a last little look. He is an old man now, and the creation of the Starship Titanic is the pinnacle achievement of his twenty-year career. But less provincial onlookers would recognize it as the design of Leovinus, the galaxy's most renowned architect. An earthling would see it as a mixture of the Chrysler Building, the tomb of Tutankhamen, and Venice. The saga of "the ship that cannot possibly go wrong" sparkles with wit, danger, and confusion that will keep readers guessing which reality they are in and how, on earth, to find their way out again.At the center of the galaxy, a vast, unknown civilization is preparing for an event of epic the launching of the greatest, most gorgeous, most technologically advanced Starship ever built-the Starship Titanic. In this thoroughly satisfying and completely disorienting novel based on a story line by Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Terry Jones recounts an unforgettable tale of intergalactic travel and mishap.
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