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'''''And Another Thing...''''' is the sixth book in the [[Trilogy Creep|increasingly inaccurately-named]] ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' trilogy. It's notable for being the first installment of the series not written by its creator, [[Douglas Adams]], but by [[Eoin Colfer]]<ref>although it's very difficult to tell at times and painfully easy at others</ref>, author of the ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' series (not counting ''[[Starship Titanic]]'', a tie-in novel written by Terry Jones of [[Monty Python]] fame). The book was released on October 12, 2009, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first book's original publication. Its storyline follows directly from where the fifth book, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Mostly Harmless|Mostly Harmless]]'', left off.
 
Seconds before the Grebulons (the clueless, would-be [[Alien Invasion|alien invaders]] from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Mostly Harmless|Mostly Harmless]]'') demolish the [[Alternate Universe|alternate-universe Earth]] as part of a [[Xanatos Gambit|crafty gambit]] set up by the Vogons over the course of the previous books, our protagonists (Arthur Dent, his daughter Random, her mother Trillian Astra, and their friend Ford Prefect) are given one last shot at self-preservation by the Guide Mk. II, who abandoned Vogon Jeltz's side to fulfill Random's dying wish.
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* [[All Girls Like Ponies]]: Random's version of their rescue from Club Beta involved unicorns.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: [[Classical Mythology | Gaea]], [[Norse Mythology | Thor, Heimdall and Hel]],and [[Cthulhu Mythos | Cthulhu]] all make appearances at some point in the narrative.
* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: {{spoiler|Except for "our" versions, every single Arthur, Ford and Trilian in the multiverse is killed, apparently out of sheer spite on the part of the multiverse itself. Many of these are also [[Necro Non Sequitur|Necro Non Sequiturs]].}}
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Arthur, sucked into a wormhole just as Fenchurch did between books four and five, finds himself stranded on an island very similar to the one he'd fantasized about in the Guide Mk. II's [[Lotus Eater Machine]]. It's a place of absolute peace... until he's made aware that the Vogons are on their way.}} Made even more bittersweet by the fact that the story is now almost certainly over. Unless you thought it was funny.
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|Arthur. His daughter loves him, he's got a peaceful life, the Vogons have been staved off, and he's briefly reunited with a version of Fenchurch...before he's sucked away in hyperspace and stuck on a beach just as the Vogons are arriving.}}
 
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