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* {{Egopolis}}: Dave lives in [=DaveLand=], complete with a river Dave. He had renamed the Pacific Ocean, Ocean as the Dave Ocean before deciding to call it the Karen Ocean.Ocean after [[Music/{{Carpenters}} Karen Carpenter]].
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* UpliftedAnimals: The cabbie complains about scientists teaching kangaroos to talk.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: One of Dirk's clie rs used a medium to contact her dead husband but all he would say was that he didn't believe in any of that spiritualist nonsense.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Dave and his society, due to it mentioning that humanity died out long ago. There's a throwaway line in modern day about scientists teaching kangaroos to talk, implying that they might rise up to replace us.
* AnimalIsTheNewMan: As said above, it's implied that kangaroos might replace us.
* AnimalIsTheNewMan: As said above, it's implied that kangaroos might replace us.
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* InvisibleAnatomy: Dirk is hired to find the back half of a cat. The cat's front end can still walk and stand as if it has four legs.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: After a woman has her car stolen, the narrator says he wishes the radio of a passing convertible was playing "How does it feeeeel" but it was actually playing "Sunday Girl" by ''Music/{{Blondie}}'' which wasn't even remotely appropriate.
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* ArcWords - "Gusty Winds may exist" (possibly referring to Dirk's client's half-missing cat).
* BatmanGambit - It's strongly suggested that Dirk's mystery client knows ''exactly'' how Dirk will react to the payments, right down to which person he will randomly choose to follow. It's also possible that this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by TimeTravel.
* CallBack - To the chapter on the Northern White Rhino in "Last Chance to See" where the author described how the rhino's nasal passages are larger than its brain.
* RhinoRampage - Desmond, in chapter nine.
* ArcWords - "Gusty Winds may exist" (possibly referring to Dirk's client's half-missing cat).
* BatmanGambit - It's strongly suggested that Dirk's mystery client knows ''exactly'' how Dirk will react to the payments, right down to which person he will randomly choose to follow. It's also possible that this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by TimeTravel.
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->''[[Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency Dirk Gently]], hired by someone he never meets, to do a job that is never specified, starts following people at random. His investigations lead him to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, through the nasal membranes of a rhinoceros, to a distant future dominated by estate agents and heavily armed kangaroos. Jokes, lightly poached fish, and the emergent properties of complex systems form the background to Dirk Gently's most baffling and incomprehensible case.''
-->-- Creator/DouglasAdams in a letter to his editor, describing WhatCouldHaveBeen a really wild book.
''The Salmon of Doubt'' is an unfinished manuscript by Creator/DouglasAdams, left in that state after the author sadly [[AuthorExistenceFailure hitched a lift to the Great Beyond.]] Its exact nature is, and forever will remain, unclear: it started life as a third ''Dirk Gently'' book, but the author later implied that it wasn't working out that way, and that he might change it into a sixth ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide]]'' (partly to end the series on a happier note after the [[DarkerAndEdgier bitter]] [[Literature/MostlyHarmless fifth book]]). However, it contains strange passages that don't fit neatly into either series, such as an incongruous, uncharacteristic account of a UsefulNotes/LosAngeles carjacking and an account of a man named Dave, hang-gliding over a post-apocalyptic woodland.
Several chapters from the manuscript (primarily those featuring Dirk Gently) have been compiled and published in ''The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time''. This book is largely composed of essays, anecdotes, and other non-fiction writing from Douglas Adams, and merely takes its name from - and includes sizable fragments of -- the manuscript at the end of the book. The short stories "Literature/YoungZaphodPlaysItSafe" (a short prequel to ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' focusing on the character of Zaphod Beeblebrox) and "Literature/ThePrivateLifeOfGenghisKhan" are included, as well.
As yet, no one has attempted to finish the book; whether it ever receives the ''[[Literature/TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood Edwin Drood]]'' treatment remains to be seen.
The story, such as it is, is cryptic and surreal even by Adamsian standards. It begins with Dirk Gently, the con artist / private detective last seen in ''Literature/TheLongDarkTeaTimeOfTheSoul'', being asked to investigate the disappearance of ''the back half'' of a woman's cat (the cat, strangely, is just fine, and seems not to have noticed that he's [[OnlyMostlyDead only mostly there]]). Shortly thereafter, Dirk begins to receive a series of enormous payments from an unseen client, although he's done nothing to earn it. Convinced that he has to do ''something'' to justify this, he follows a ginger-haired actor ([[WildMassGuessing fan speculation]] identifies him as [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Ford Prefect]]) onto a flight bound for UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Dirk then meets a rhinoceros named Desmond on the back of a truck. The story is largely fragments, and consists of various chapters from various drafts that Adams wrote at different times and because of this, there's no specific point where the text breaks off mid-thought, the story just sort of [[NoEnding stops]] at the end of a chapter.
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* AfterTheEnd - Dave is implied to live in the far future, in a world where nature has reclaimed most of the planet.
* ArcWords - "Gusty Winds may exist" (possibly referring to Dirk's client's half-missing cat).
* CallBack - To the chapter on the Northern White Rhino in "Last Chance to See" where the author described how the rhino's nasal passages are larger than it's brain.
* RhinoRampage - Desmond, in chapter nine.
* SchrodingersCat - The eponymous Gusty Winds is only half a cat.
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[[caption-width-right:304:''[[MemeticMutation what are you doing in space salmon youre a salmon you dont belong in space you cant even breathe there]]'']]
->''[[Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency Dirk Gently]], hired by someone he never meets, to do a job that is never specified, starts following people at random. His investigations lead him to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, through the nasal membranes of a rhinoceros, to a distant future dominated by estate agents and heavily armed kangaroos. Jokes, lightly poached fish, and the emergent properties of complex systems form the background to Dirk Gently's most baffling and incomprehensible case.''
-->-- Creator/DouglasAdams in a letter to his editor, describing WhatCouldHaveBeen a really wild book.
''The Salmon of Doubt'' is an unfinished manuscript by Creator/DouglasAdams, left in that state after the author sadly [[AuthorExistenceFailure hitched a lift to the Great Beyond.]] Its exact nature is, and forever will remain, unclear: it started life as a third ''Dirk Gently'' book, but the author later implied that it wasn't working out that way, and that he might change it into a sixth ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide]]'' (partly to end the series on a happier note after the [[DarkerAndEdgier bitter]] [[Literature/MostlyHarmless fifth book]]). However, it contains strange passages that don't fit neatly into either series, such as an incongruous, uncharacteristic account of a UsefulNotes/LosAngeles carjacking and an account of a man named Dave, hang-gliding over a post-apocalyptic woodland.
Several chapters from the manuscript (primarily those featuring Dirk Gently) have been compiled and published in ''The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time''. This book is largely composed of essays, anecdotes, and other non-fiction writing from Douglas Adams, and merely takes its name from - and includes sizable fragments of -- the manuscript at the end of the book. The short stories "Literature/YoungZaphodPlaysItSafe" (a short prequel to ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' focusing on the character of Zaphod Beeblebrox) and "Literature/ThePrivateLifeOfGenghisKhan" are included, as well.
As yet, no one has attempted to finish the book; whether it ever receives the ''[[Literature/TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood Edwin Drood]]'' treatment remains to be seen.
The story, such as it is, is cryptic and surreal even by Adamsian standards. It begins with Dirk Gently, the con artist / private detective last seen in ''Literature/TheLongDarkTeaTimeOfTheSoul'', being asked to investigate the disappearance of ''the back half'' of a woman's cat (the cat, strangely, is just fine, and seems not to have noticed that he's [[OnlyMostlyDead only mostly there]]). Shortly thereafter, Dirk begins to receive a series of enormous payments from an unseen client, although he's done nothing to earn it. Convinced that he has to do ''something'' to justify this, he follows a ginger-haired actor ([[WildMassGuessing fan speculation]] identifies him as [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Ford Prefect]]) onto a flight bound for UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Dirk then meets a rhinoceros named Desmond on the back of a truck. The story is largely fragments, and consists of various chapters from various drafts that Adams wrote at different times and because of this, there's no specific point where the text breaks off mid-thought, the story just sort of [[NoEnding stops]] at the end of a chapter.
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* AfterTheEnd - Dave is implied to live in the far future, in a world where nature has reclaimed most of the planet.
* ArcWords - "Gusty Winds may exist" (possibly referring to Dirk's client's half-missing cat).
* CallBack - To the chapter on the Northern White Rhino in "Last Chance to See" where the author described how the rhino's nasal passages are larger than it's brain.
* RhinoRampage - Desmond, in chapter nine.
* SchrodingersCat - The eponymous Gusty Winds is only half a cat.
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