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11/20/2001 Entry: "">"Hitchhiker's Guide" catches final ride - Tech News - CNET.com"

"Hitchhiker's Guide" catches final ride - Tech News - CNET.com

An unfinished novel by science fiction writer Douglas Adams will be published next year and released on the anniversary of his death, according to published reports.

"A Salmon of a Doubt," the sixth installment in Adams' cult classic, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," is being edited from files found on the author's computer, the U.K.-based Sunday Telegraph reported. A version of the novel will appear in a collection of Adams' work, the Telegraph said.

The new story builds on Adams' satirical 1979 "Hitchhiker's Guide," which followed the search by alien Ford Prefect and his human companion Arthur Dent for an answer to life, the universe and everything. Adams' other works include "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," "Life, the Universe and Everything" and "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish."