By: Terry Jones , Douglas Adams

Arguably the greatest collaboration in the whole history of comedy!Bestselling author Douglas Adams wrote the storyline based on his CD-ROM game of the same name (as this novel, not as him, obviously).Terry Jones of Monty Python wrote the book. In the nude! Parents be warned! Most of the words in this book were written by a naked man!So. You want to argue with that? All right, we give in.Starship Titanic is the greatest, most fabulous, most technologically advanced interstellar cruise line ever built. It is like a cross between the Queen Mary, the Chrysler Building, Tutankhamens tomb, and Venice. Furthermore, it cannot possibly go wrong. . . .Sadly, however, seconds after its launch it undergoes SMEF, or Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure. And disappears. Except, everything's got to be somewhere. Coming home that night, on a little known planet called Earth, Dan and Lucy Gibson find something very large and very, very shiny sticking into their house. . .There are many chuckles to be had by reading this hilarious novel about a space adventure that undergoes Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure (SMEF) and disappears--in the house of two Earth residents.

Review (Kirkus, 09/01/1997): "Both Jones and Adams possess impressive comic credentials, so there are some amusing moments--but otherwise it's pretty thin and familiar fare."
Review by Tim Sullivan (Washington Post Book World, 11/30/1997): "There are a good many chuckles to be had before the end of 'Starship Titanic', with a few belly laughs tossed in for good measure."
Review by Gerald Jonas (New York Times Book Review, 12/21/1997): "While Jones successfully mimics Adams's antic style, everything else that made the Hitchhiker series memorable is missing; the perfect-pitch sendup of science fiction cliches, the good-natured wildness, the laugh-out-loud-funny stuff."