title: Navigating the Waters of My Dreams: A Master Shipbuilder's Tale of His Voyage with the RMS Titanic
author: Norm Little
description: Norm Little now resides in Pennsylvania with his family and three dogs. He spends his time giving lectures on the Titanic to benefit Hospice in memory of his son, David, and volunteering at Discovery Station at Hagerstown, Inc.
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  Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic
  
  
  by
  
  
  Terry Jones * * * * * ISBN: 9780345368430
  
  
  
  
  
  Introduction
  
  
  
  
  
  The idea for Starship Titanic first surfaced in the way that a lot of ideas
  originate, as a mere couple of sentences out of nowhere. Years ago it was just
  a little digression in Life, the Universe and Everything. I said that the
  Starship Titanic had, shortly into its maiden voyage, undergone Spontaneous
  Massive Existence Failure. It's just one of those bits that you put in while
  you are waiting for the plot to develop. You think, 'Well, I'll develop
  another quick plot while I'm about it.' So it sat there as a couple of
  sentences in L, U & E and after a while I thought, 'Well, I think there is a
  little bit more to this idea,' and tossed it around for a while. At one point
  I even considered developing it as a novel in itself and then thought, no, it
  sounded too much like a good idea, and I'm always wary of those.
  
  
  In the mid eighties I did a text-only computer