So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Arthur Dent finds the girl of his dreams somewhere 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar, and together they go looking for God's Final Message to His Creation. Pan's back cover calls it, straight-faced, volume four in the trilogy of four. The cover is a collage: Chris Foss's spacecraft, a towel photographed by Peter Williams, fish from Image Bank, and a self-portrait Adams made on an Apple computer.