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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a joke-turned-plot element from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books. The protagonist, a human everyman stranded with a primitive culture on a distant world realises he has no idea how electricity, steam engines, medicine, etc works but he becomes a respected member of their community by making sandwiches.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mostly Harmless. I didn't like that one. It was somehow bleak and left me worrying that DNA was in a bad place when he wrote it. I'm going to be a heretic and say that I did like how Colfer continued the series.

    In a Discworld novel, an off-hand remark mentions Ponder Stibbons wanting to build a Van-De-Graff-generator by tying cats to a wheel. I wish I could remember which book it was.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I kinda liked the bleak. It felt like an ending. Drove home a fairly central theme

    Never read Colfer's continuation, I read some of the Artemis Fowl books when I was younger and I didn't really expect him to match Adams' particular style.

    I did listen to the radio adaptation though, and if it's true to the source then it was... okay? I'm not sure it added much.

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