• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • By: Douglas Adams
  • Narrated by: Martin Freeman
  • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (5,775 ratings)

Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish  By  cover art

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

By: Douglas Adams
Narrated by: Martin Freeman
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $13.50

Buy for $13.50

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!

“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—
United Press International

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.

God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it’s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. What else is new?

“The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible.”—The Boston Globe

Don't miss more from this exciting series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
©2006 Douglas Adams (P)2006 Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"The looniest of the lot."--Time

"A madcap adventure . . . Adams's writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy."--United Press International

"The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible."--The Boston Globe

Featured Article: 12 of the Best Sci-Fi Series in Audio


From the furthest reaches of space to the microbiology of pandemics and gene manipulation, to the future implications of technology for societies similar to our own, science fiction is a fascinating genre that offers listeners a wide variety of ways to access its themes. In looking for the best sci-fi audiobook series, it can be difficult to know where to start due to the genre's sheer number of iterations and variations. But what these series have in common is an acute devotion to telling a good story, as well as fully building out the worlds therein. The writing is enhanced by the creative and impassioned narration.

What listeners say about So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    4,181
  • 4 Stars
    1,175
  • 3 Stars
    344
  • 2 Stars
    56
  • 1 Stars
    19
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    4,128
  • 4 Stars
    633
  • 3 Stars
    122
  • 2 Stars
    11
  • 1 Stars
    12
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3,491
  • 4 Stars
    932
  • 3 Stars
    380
  • 2 Stars
    75
  • 1 Stars
    19

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

In love with the girl

Only Duglas could make me fall in love with a girl named Fenchurch. Thank you and ...

We are sorry for the inconvenience. ...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

6 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Loved this one the best out of the 6

Would you listen to So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish again? Why?

Have listened to it several times already!!!! Favorite of the 6 Hitch hiker books!!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

6 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars

Reads like it was written under deadline

There's an anecdote about eating biscuits at a train station in this book that's about two pages long. It has nothing to do with the plot, such as it is. I'd find that anecdote online and skip the rest of this book, which otherwise reads as if Adams had gotten tired of writing Hitchhiker sequels and just wanted to get it over with.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

5 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Missing Adams' classic narration, but still great.

I grew up with the audiocassettes of the entire Hitchhiker's series, and loved Doug Adams narration. The story on this one is still one of my favorites of the series, but i do kind of miss the voice delivering the lines that i somehow still know by heart.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

5 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

My favorite of the HHG2G Series

Douglas Adams delivers wonderful comentary, humor, and storytelling, addressing a myriad of subjects. The character of Finchurch gives the series a degree of romance which simply doesnt exist in the others novels of this series, and which ties together various themes throughout the series without taking away from the deeper subjects of the books.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Tight focus, love the interplay between characters

Love the (almost) linear story.
Fenchuch and Arthur are adorable and Freeman is wonderful narrating.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

book

Freeman is a great voice actor, which I wasn't expecting. Doug Adams is, as always great

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    1 out of 5 stars

Couldn't wait for it to be over.

Arthur meets a girl. Arthur loses track of a girl. Arthur tries to find girl. Arthur stumbles onto to girl. They run off together.

That's literally it. I'm not summarizing (well...), there is literally not meat on that bone at all. There are a couple of scenes which I thought were fantastic, but it honestly felt like everything around it was written and pushed out just so Douglas Adams had a place to release those two jokes.

Fans of the series should stop at Life, the Universe, and Everything. People that just want to dip their toes, should stop at the first Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Martin Freeman as always is great!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Hitchhiker is just plain fun

Hitchhiker is just plain fun. I loved the series when i was young. I read it in college, and again in Med school, and again when i started reading for pleasure again, and now I am going to listen to them all.
I cannot wait. I just wish Douglas was alive for more, but I am about to read Coffer's installment (or try) for a 6th book in the series.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Woof.

in order to comply with the completely arbitrary requirement of a fifteen-word review, please screw

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful