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The aliens' plans were, if I remember right, posted for display in a nearby star system, with a similar 'it's your own fault if you didn't bother to go look' justification.

The indie book series Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is entirely unlike Adams' work in most ways but clearly takes some inspiration from the malevolent absurdity on display, uses a similar premise where the demolition-causing aliens let the pharaohs know 40,000 years ago and that serves as sufficient legal notice.



... almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ...


The best sentence in the entire book


I think it's tied with "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."


I think both of those lose out to the discussion of "grammar in the context of time travel".


this is the stupidest debate that I'd be willing to read an entire transcript of.


Further similar vibes: the DUST short film "Final Offer": https://youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g




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