The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
(Douglas Adams)
Computers can be damned literal. Take for example Eddie the onboard computer on the spaceship Heart of Gold. He gets told by Zaphod, two headed ex-galactic president and rightful stealer of the Heart of Gold to take the crew to the nearest place for a drink. Now you and I, not being literalist would have started poking around for a nearby star system to get hammered on but not Eddie. Eddie realized that one day billions of years from now a restaurant would exist exactly where they were standing, Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.And so, after a bit of a foul up with a bowl of petunias and a whatnot, Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Zaphod find themselves at the last moment of the Universe ready to drink fine wines, eat good food (a meal which wishes to be eaten. Very funny) and watch one hell of a floor show. The plot moves on of course, back in time forward in the plot. We get tied up again in the carry over story from the first book about the Earth being custom engineered and learn something quite startling about the relationship between humans, hair dressers and telephone sanitation engineers. We also learn, much to every but Zaphod?s surprise that he is indeed the most important thing in the universe.While this story is not as self contained as the first one, being just a vehicle to get from the first novel to the third, it is nevertheless a riot. Adams? ability to draw the everyday, like waiting for the elevator, into the hysterical, like waiting for elevators that can see forward into time and refuse to go to some of the higher floors for reasons only they know, is legendary and in full swing here. Awesome!
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