The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
(Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams follows the extraordinary -and somewhat unfortunate- life of the protagonist, Arthur Dent following the destruction of his home planet, the Earth. Aided in his escape from the planet by Ford Prefect, his hitherto unsuspected Betelgeusian friend, the two embark on a multitude of adventures, several of which deal with the extraordinary origin of Arthur?s home planet and the rather less extraordinary ?meaning of life, the universe and everything?.
Arthur, in his complete bafflement of current situations, relates directly to the readers' state of mind. Help is at hand though, in the form of a small pocket-sized book, which comfortingly displays the 'words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover'. With the Guide working as part narrator, part trans-stellar encyclopaedia, both the reader and Arthur become much wiser to the absurdity of the Galaxy surrounding them.
With his unique ability to meld together both humour and science fiction genres, Adams expands the galaxy as we know it, creating such divine natural coincidences as the translating Babel Fish and mocking our complete underestimation of the intellectual capacities of mice.
Adams uses the guide to highlight the vastness of space and the chances therefore, of everything Arthur thought previously impossible on his inconsequential home planet, to be very possible at some part of the galaxy. Hence, the Heart of Gold -the improbability drive powered spaceship that rescues Arthur and Ford- is being piloted by Ford?s semi-cousin Zaphod Beeblebrox and a young girl Arthur once met at a party on Earth; hence, a whale and a bowl of petunias appear several thousand miles above a mythical planet-building planet for no particular reason.
Hitchhiker?s? , despite its absurdity, is always rooted primarily in logic. Adams doesn?t just stream baffling plot devices at the reader, but explores their inner workings and, more importantly, their plausibility. Due to the presentation of such complex concepts and because of its laugh-out-loud humour, The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy is a supremely accessible read.
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