Resumo de The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy was born as a six-part radio series is a funny parody of the science-fiction books that were so famous at the moment when Douglas Adams first conceived it. Now this humorous parody has become famous thanks to its launching film based on the novel Douglas Adams published in 1979.
This novel is the story of a book, The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy, edited by the publishing houses of Ursa Minor. A book so know in the galaxy that has outnumbered other books such as the Encicopledia Galactica, as the narrator introduces the reader in the first chapter of the story. Every now and then, harmoniously blended with the action that takes place in the story, there are small bits of the Guide that the characters read in order to get a better idea of what it is going on.
The novel?s main characters are: Earthman Arthur Dent, a 30 year old British man whose house has been demolished by Vogons because the wanted to do a spatial bypass; Ford Perfect, form the vicinity of Betelguse, who is reviewing the Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, president of the galaxy that has stolen the Heart of Gold; Trillian or Tricia McMillian and Earthwoman that survived Earth's destruction because she went to space with Zaphod Beeblebrox; and Marvin a maniac depressive robot that has a Genuine People Personality.
The novel begins with Earth's demolition by the Vogons, a race of bureaucratic aliens who want to construct a hyper spatial bypass in Earth's galactic system. Arthur survives the demolition thanks to his friend Ford Perfect as they hitch a lift into the Vogon's ship but are soon expelled into the Universe vacuum as Vogons do not like hitchhikers.
Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian and Marvin are travelling together in the Heart of Gold, a new travelling ship that Zaphod has stolen for his unknown purposes. The Heart of Gold catches Arthur and Ford Perfect from the universe vacuum while being in the Improbability Drive. Together they travel to Magrathea a mythical planet know to have constructed further planets, a place Zaphod Beeblebrox wants to visit for an unknown reason for himself as he has operated his two brains in order to forget certain things. Soon it becomes obvious that they are seeking the Ultimate Question whose answer is 42, reason why some hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional aliens constructed the most intelligent computer in the Universe: Earth. But disgracefully Earth was destructed five minutes before the program was finished, so the Magratheans have been woken in order to construct a second Earth and finish the program. But as an Earthman survived the demolition of the planet-computer, the pan-dimensional aliens decide to buy Arthur's brain in order to have the Ultimate Question, fortunately the five protagonists manage to escape them and set course to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.This novel forms part of a long saga composed of four other books in which some of the questions that appear in the first book are answered. It is an entertaining, amusing book ideal for science-fiction lovers and those who like parodies. It is written in cinematic way following the style Graham Greene made famous with his novels, but it might be a coincidence as the novel was adapted from a radio series, latter converted into a television series

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