Resumo de The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Ford Prefect is a field correspondent for the Guide stationed on Earth and fully aware that the Guide has forgotten about him. His best friend is Arthur Dent. His boring life in the West Country is changed one morning when Ford alerts him that he's actually from somewhere near Betelgeuse and that they have to get off the planet before it's demolished.An alien race of bureaucrats called Vogons intend to destroy Earth to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass.After escaping onto one of the Vogons' ships with seconds to spare via hitchhiking, and then being read Vogon poetry, Arthur and Ford are thrown into open space. They are inadvertently picked up seconds before asphyxiation by the Heart of Gold, a ship which was stolen by President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox, who happens to be Ford's semi-cousin. The ship is piloted by Zaphod and Trillian, whom Arthur once met at a party, and attended to by clinically depressed android Marvin. Ford and Arthur learn of Zaphod's immediate intentions for the ship: finding the legendary lost planet of Magrathea, which built luxury planets. When they do, Arthur meets an old resident, Slartibartfast , who tells him some rich clients (known to humans as mice, which are three-dimensional representations of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings that only had representatives on Earth to monitor its progress) have reawoken the Magratheans from cryosis for one more job. The planet to build is a new Earth, to replace the now demolished, which the Magratheans built not as a planet but an organic supercomputer to calculate the Question, not the Answer, to Life, the Universe and Everything. The Answer is already known to the mice. As Deep Thought told them, the Answer is 42, but this only makes sense if the Question is known. Earth was, in fact, demolished five minutes before the Question was calculated.The mice explain it will take too long to wait for Earth II to produce the Question when, as a last-generation organic byproduct of the computer's matrix, they could simply find the Question imprinted in Arthur's brainwaves. Of course, they have to kill him and remove his brain and dice it. Fortunately the Galactic police arrives, who come to arrest Zaphod for theft. Before the four of them are killed by the police in the chase, the officers' life support is cut off and they die. Back at the Heart of Gold, they find Marvin, their savior?he had plugged his external feed into the policecraft's input port and uploaded his horribly depressing views on life. The craft committed suicide, in an act that took the on-board life support system with it.Zaphod decides tohead to the restaurant Milliways, and their story continues in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

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