Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!MAINE=ZEICHICK%G.CC@Berkeley From: MAINE=ZEICHICK%G.CC@Berkeley@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: none Message-ID: <12338@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Oct-83 13:29:11 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12338 Posted: Wed Oct 5 13:29:11 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 08:00:44 EDT Lines: 31 ----------------------------- TO: SF-Lovers- FROM: Carole A. Zeichick- 130 Moosehead Blvd., Bangor, Maine 04401 (207) 942-7512 DATE: October 5, 1983 Wednesday at 13:07 ----------------------------- In response to the recent enquiry regarding the rubber ducky in the second album cover of HHGTTG, the rubber ducky belongs to the captain of the Golgafrincham 'B' ark vessel. The captain spends all his time in his bath playing with his rubber ducky hence its use on the album cover. Now about Douglas Adams and the third book of the series. Being a HHGTTG fan for many years, having first heard the series in my native Great Britain and having listened to numerous interviews with the author, I can safely say that the third book has absolutely nothing to do with the radio series. The way it works is this: The first book IS the first radio series - that's episodes 1 thru 6. The second book is a free adaptation of episodes 5 and 6 of the first radio series--i.e., not actually aired, but 'extrapolated' from Zaphod's comment about eating at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The third book has nothing to do with anything, and the second radio eries (episodes 7-12) has not been written up in book form, and won't be, either. -Carole-