Resumo de Life, The Universe And Everything

Trapedon pre-historic Earth the unlucky Arthur Dent decides to enjoy his time to the fullest by going insane. He is then sudenly sidetracked by the reappearance of is old friend, Ford Prefect. His friend pulls him through an eddy in the space continuum (disguised as an anachronistic sofa) and into Lord´s Cricket Grounda day before the Vogons are to destroy the Earth. Meanwhile a ship lands and a squad of robots steals The Ashes. Startibartfast arrives too late to stop the violence and asks Ford and Arthur to help him.
On Startibartfast ship, Arthur learns the history of Krikkit. Somehow a lone Krikkit warship has escaped and is looking for the three stumps and two bails that will form the Wikkit Gate; this is the key that will unlock the Slo-Time envelope and release the Krikkiters to complete their genocidal mission.The group completely fails to stop the Krikkit war party from reconstructing the Key and opening the envelope.
However, the Krikkiters seem to have lost their bloodthirstiness over the centuries. As it happens, the dust cloud was actually the pulverised remains of Hactar , a supercomputer built by the Silastic Armorfiends.the Slo-Time envelope blocked Hactar's influence and allowed the Krikkiters to return to their peaceful ways.
With the universe seemingly saved, Ford, Arthur and Slartibartfast return The Ashes.
Arthur can't resist his only opportunity to bowl a ball at Lord's; he finds a red ball in his pouch and a batsman obligingly stands before a wicket. As he begins to bowl time slows and he realises several things First, the odd sensation he had in his pouch while talking to Hactar, and that the ball really was the supercomputer's doomsday device supplanting the one that had fallen in his bag when he first arrived at Lords, planted there by Hactar.Second, the batsman is in fact a Krikkit robot, and if it manages to strike the ball, it will detonate the bomb and destroy the universe. Distracted by all of these thoughts, Arthur trips, forgets to hit the ground and goes sailing off, sending the weapon sailing harmlessly off into the distance.Life, the Universe and Everything is the last book in the series to feature the characters of Zaphod Beeblebrox and Slartibartfast.

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