History Literature / AndAnotherThing

** At the beginning of the book the main characters, meeting after so much time in the stimulated universes, start to argue about how they got away from the destruction of earth. Trillian says their babel fish saved them for her side of the story. This is ''exactly'' what happens at the end of the radio show.

** In the prologue, Colfer says that if you type "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, an icon will tell you that there are three results, which is confusing because there are clearly five listed below it. Get it? The ''five'' books of the Hitchhiker's Guide ''trilogy!'' FridgeBrilliance-tastic!\\\

* AbortedArc: So, what about Vann Harl and Infini-Dim Enterprises? Last we heard, they were still utterly in control of distributing the ''Guide'', as [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised there has been no word]] on whether Ford's attempt to drain the company of its assets by spending excessively from his company-issued credit card came to any success. At one point, Ford himself mentions that he's still working on that, but will the question ever be revisited? [[TemptingFate It's improbable...]]

Almost at once, the gang is rescued by Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox, who, apparently, had been up to some ''very'' funny business since his last appearance. Now endebted to Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, an aeons-old immortal, the President embarks on a quest to meet with the [[Myth/NorseMythology Nordic thunder-god Thor]] to fulfill his part of a very odd bargain. Meanwhile, Arthur Dent is elated, and the Vogons are very displeased, to find that the human species may yet live on, in the depths of a faraway dark nebula... (''[[ScareChord bohm bohm bohhhhm]]!!'')

* TheDitz: Taken UpToEleven with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. It's said to be the stupidest creature in the universe and thinks that if you can't see it, it can't see you (read that last part carefully.)

''And Another Thing...'' is the sixth book in the [[TrilogyCreep increasingly inaccurately-named]] ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' trilogy. It's notable for being the first installment of the series not written by its creator, Creator/DouglasAdams, but by Creator/EoinColfer[[note]]although it's very difficult to tell at times and painfully easy at others[[/note]], author of the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' series (not counting ''VideoGame/StarshipTitanic'', a tie-in novel written by Terry Jones of Creator/MontyPython fame). The book was released on October 12, 2009, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first book's original publication. Its storyline follows directly from where the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', left off.

It gets better: "Each of these five results is [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a lengthy article]] accompanied by [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy many hours]] of [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy video]] and [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy audio]] files and some dramatic reconstructions featuring quite well-known actors." Which makes the description of the text-only appendix you will find at the bottom of the page, "with absolutely no audio and not so much as a frame of video shot by a student director who made the whole thing in his bedroom and paid his drama soc. mates with sandwiches", (ending "this is the story of that appendix") SelfDeprecation.

* SecretHandshake: Between Ford and Zaphod, twice. Seemingly based on the strange dance they do in the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film]]. Apparently they invented it as children.

* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: Nano]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: On Wowbagger's ship, Ford decides to give himself blue hair.

* HappyEndingOverride: Changes the radio series's happy ending into a LotusEaterMachine that the Guide [=MK=] [=II=] put the gang into. Now his batteries are running out, their back on an Earth that's about to be destroyed.

* OutlivedItsCreator

* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:Zaphod]] set one up by effectively arming both sides in the human-Vogon conflict, [[spoiler:one with a god and the other with a god-destroying weapon]]. In the end [[spoiler:Thor's faked suicide]] enables them to keep the business of both [[spoiler:(remaining Thor's manager and the Vogons' supplier]]. This may have been unintentional.

* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: Nano]]

*** Made ''even worse than that'' when you remember that Douglas Adams was going to have a happy ending in book six (before AuthorExistenceFailure).

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Colfer, who is Irish, creates the first Irish character to appear in the ''Hitchhiker's'' series.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Of the various beings interviewed for the new protector deity of Nano, among them are Thor (in a call back to the second book), [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hecate]], and ''[[Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu Cthulhu]]'', among plenty of others. Norse mythology gets a lot of attention, appropriately.

* ThrowTheDogABone: A Mr. [[spoiler:A. Grajag]] is mentioned at the end of the book as having won the lottery, marrying his childhood sweetheart, and having two well-adjusted children.

* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Arthur. His daughter loves him, he's got a peaceful life, the Vogons have been staved off, and he's briefly reunited with a version of Fenchurch... before he's sucked away in hyperspace and stuck on a beach just as the Vogons are arriving.]]