Posted by Robert Hill on September 03, 2004 at 00:45:55 from 195.92.168.178 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Gamekeepers posted by Mike Dennis on September 02, 2004 at 16:45:23:
The Hitch-hiker trilogy ended up as five books - the last was called Mostly Harmless if I remember correctly. But of course it was a radio series before it was any books at all, and no subsequent incarnation has been as good as the radio version.
In adition to Adams and Asimov, there's also a story, possibly by Henry Kuttner, in which all the computers in the universe are linked into a huge network. A guy switches it on and asks "Is there a God?". A flash of lightning welds the switch in the "on" position, and a voice replies "Now there is a God."
Did this discussion have something to do with Ransome at one stage?