The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
(Douglas Adams)
The first in the "Hitchhiker" series, "Guide" reflects Adams' magnificent stream-of-consciousness writing style through the protagonist Arthur Dent, a checked-out and vaguely naive human who escapes from the Earth just before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. He is rescued by the aid of his friend Ford Prefect, who unbeknownest to Arthur is an interstellar researcher for the "wholly remarkable" book, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." During their jaunts through outer space, Arthur and Ford find themselves well-met with old friends, namely the Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox, who stole a priceless ship called the "Heart of Gold," which is powered on a new technology called the Infinite Improbability Drive, and the levelheaded Trillian (aka Tricia McMillan), an Islington girl whom Arthur had met at a party and totally failed to get off with (instead she went off with Beeblebrox, who was at the time calling himself "Phil" and hiding his second head). The travellers use the Heart of Gold to travel to the legendary planet Magrathea, a planet where other planets are created. In this book, we are introduced to Marvin, the depressed android. We learn of the origin of the Earth. Deep Thought, the Universe's second greatest computer, tells us after a seven-and-a-half million year calculation the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything (outraged philosophers attempt to stifle the computer's announcement since they fear for their jobs). The four newly reacquainted travellers find themselves narrowly escaping death several times at the hands of the Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (whose poetry is only the Universe's third worst), of the superior race (mice) and of simple-minded Galactic cops who are trying to capture Beeblebrox and repossess the Heart of Gold. Warning to the faint-of-heart: An innocent sperm whale is both created and killed in this book.
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