Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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Jump to navigationJump to searchAdams, Douglas. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. 1987. New York: Simon and Schuster, n.d. [S. F.] Book Club Edition (no ISBN but no other indication of Book Club status).
See for what we will call a minimalist, quantum-metaphysical time machine, centering on an abacus (see 200-201). There is also an important telephone answering machine and an Electric Monk.