Hate to nitpick, but the second book is "The Resturant at the End of
the Universe", not he Edge, in case people start searching for it.

Patrick


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:00:41 -0600, Denys Beauchemin
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> The original books were a trilogy:  "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy"
> followed by "The restaurant at the edge of the universe" and finally "Life,
> the universe and everything."  The fourth book came out later and was titled
> "So long and thanks for all the fish."  The fifth book followed at some
> point, it was "Mostly harmless."
>
> It's somewhat akin to Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, which was later followed
> by several other books.  First the sequels: "Foundation's edge", "Foundation
> and Earth". And then the prequels: "Prelude to Foundation" and "Forward the
> Foundation".
>
> Denys
>
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> > Greg writes:
> >
> > > That's a reference to the Douglas Adams trilogy in 5 parts
>
> How does a Trilogy become 5 parts?
>
> Would not that be a Pentalogy?
>
> BT
>
> Tracy Johnson
> MSI Schaevitz Sensors
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