The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
(Douglas Adams)
This is probably the most famous novel of the British science
fictionwriter Douglas Adams. The novel describes the adventures of
Arthur Dent, an Englishman of about thirty years, in deep space. Arthur
Dent's house gets demolished to make way for a highway bypass, and soon
after that, the entire earth is demolished because it stands in the way
of an intergalactic hyperspace highway. During his adventures, Arthur
Dent is accompanied by an extraterrestrian who had been researching for
a new edition of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and got stuck on
the earth for several years in the process.The information given in the
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, an electronic device with the words,
"don't panic" written in large friendly letters on it, are regularly
compared to the quite dull explanations of the Encyclopedia Galactica,
an allusion to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Many humourous and useful
details about life in the universe are presented to the reader. If you
read the novel, you'll find out whose life-form's poetry is the
third-worst in the universe, so that recitation of it leads to internal
hemorrhagia in the audience, that bath-towels are amongst the most
useful objects in the universe, and you'll learn that the President of
the Universe's job is not to wield power, but to distract attention
away from it. Since the novel was first published in 1979, it has
become hugely popular, especially with physicists and information
scientists. Thus, the name babelfish, an automatic translation machine
in the internet, takes its name from a fish from this novel, which
translates among all languages of the universe, if it is put in the
ears of an interstellar traveller, taking its energy from the brain
waves of its host.
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