So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
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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.
Returning to his miraculously undemolished 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 For All the Fish."
Through the rest of the book, he encounters a number of other people who have received similar fishbowls, including a woman named Fenchurch, who may be the only person on the planet who remembers that it was destroyed, and 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.
Meanwhile, Ford Prefect has discovered that his entry on Earth for the Hitchhiker's Guide has mysteriously re-appeared, and, being Ford, uses 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.
Arthur falls in love with Fenchurch, and together they 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 APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE; Marvin, against all probability, then dies happily.
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