Resumo de So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

The book begins with Arthur Dent, hitch-hiking randomly through the galaxy, arriving at the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar - namely Earth, continuing on exactly the same as before it was destroyed, except that the dolphins are gone.After getting dropped off on the planet by a spaceship, Arthur Dent walks along a road in the rain. Dent is probably already aware Earth exists again considering that the UFO that brought him delivered him within spitting distance of his former/not-so-former house; probably not a coincidence. Dent is then surprised by a Porsche driving by because it is the same model of Porsche as driven by a friend of his, as well as having the same bumper sticker. This may be a foreshadowing of the paradox that eight years have passed for him while only two months have passed on this Earth. After walking for awhile, he successfully hitchhikes in a car driven by Russell. In the backseat with him is Russell's sister, a beautiful woman who is unconscious. Arthur learns that this woman goes by the name `Fenny´ .Not able to stay in the car much longer, Arthur is dropped off at a pub, a pub which he knows pretty well.Returning to his home, Arthur finds that in his absence he has received an enormous pile of junk mail and a decorative fishbowl inscribed with the words `So Long, and Thanks.´ He wonders why the planet he is standing on still exists, seeing how it was blown up.Arthur returns to the village pub, and explains his absence of the last several months.
After Arthur sees Fenchurch hitchhiking and picks her up. He offers to drive her to London but instead she makes him take her only to the nearby train station. He convinces her to talk with him in a pub in the station, with bumbling Arthur unable to explain how he knows her already or why he wants to see her again. He is forced to buy charity raffle tickets, but in the end gets Fenchurch's phone number on the ticket before she leaves. He later realises that this was the winning ticket and so by giving it up in return for a very lame prize of a record of bagpipe music, he has lost the number. He falls into depression at having lost contact with Fenchurch again.In the previous book, Life, the Universe and Everything, Arthur Dent found himself living in a cave for five years. Because he doesn't have much else to do, he decides to try and find the exact coordinates of that cave. He buys a computer in Exeter, and without much skill guesses and articulates a set of coordinates which he thought might have been correct based on the view of the stars from the cave. When Arthur goes to the coordinates, in modern day Islington, he ´knocked on the appropriate door,` and is astonished to see Fenchurch standing before him. Fenchurch admonishes Arthur for not having phoned first, but invites him in and a relationship begins between the two.After realizing that Fenchurch's feet do not actually touch the ground, Arthur shows her his ability to fly by diving out of her loft apartment. He helps Fenchurch fly as well and together they float over parts of London.Arthur learns that Fenchurch, like him, has one of the engraved fishbowls, as does a man called Wonko the Sane, who long ago decided that the world had gone mad and built a wall around it with nothing 'outside' except himself and a particularly nice beach in California. They discover this after they visit Wonko the Sane because he seems to be the only man on earth who can explain the absence of the dolphins.Meanwhile, Ford Prefect has discovered that his entry on Earth for the Hitchhiker's Guide has mysteriously re-appeared and sets off for the Planet. Ford then decides to use the inexplicable opportunity to (1) play an elaborate practical joke on a salesperson for the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and (2) get some Earth movies which he hadn't seen the endings to because the planet was demolished.ArFenchurch together find out how the Earth came back by holding their fishbowls to their ear. It turns out that this new Earth is a`shadow` Earth, quite probably an Earth from an alternate timeline, brought into this universe by the dolphins' `Campaign to Save the Humans`.In the end Arthur leaves Earth again, this time accompanied by Fenchurch, and goes in search of God's Final Message to His Creation, the address of which he was given in the previous book in the series by Prak. When they arrive, they meet a dying Marvin (who, because of his extensive and usually unwilling time travel, is about 37 times older than the universe itself) and help him to read the message, which turns out to be WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. Marvin actually likes it, and then dies happily.

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