The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
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The second in the Hitchhikers Guide Collection, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, opens with the now familiar group of Arthur, Trillian, Ford, and Zaphod, arriving, very disoriented in the foyer of a fine dining establishment. The maitre?d inform them they have arrived in time to see the show, and leads them to their table. The meet the Meat of the Day and Ford runs into and old friend ? a rock star by the name of Hotblack Desiato, who is spending a year dead for tax purposes. While dining they receive a phone call from Marvin the Paranoid Android who is working as a carhop. The go down the see him and decide to borrow a ships. Zaphod and Ford fall for a solid black ship with a black interior and take off with it. Their love affair is horst lived when they discover that is a remote controlled ship piloted by Hotblack?s crew and was created for the sole purpose of crashing into a sun. They fortunately find a transporter, the works but have no way of setting the destination and have to be manually operated. They bravely volunteer Marvin to operate and shimmer off out of danger to parts unknown. Trillian and Zaphod are whisked back to the Heart of Gold, and he decided to continue the quest he has hidden from himself, to find the real ruler of the galaxy. They finally come to a planet that has one lone person on it, a simple man who is rather Yoda like. After this revelation and seeing that he has no aspirations for dictatorship, they continue off into the night. Meanwhile, Ford and Arthur wake up on a ship filled with cryogenically froze people of little importance. The ship?s captain is extraordinarily dense and spends most of his time in the bathtub he has installed on the bridge. They reveal they were sent from the planet Gogafricham, and are not even sure of their destination. Ford and Arthur discover the ship has been preprogrammed not to land but toe crash on an upcoming planet. After the crash, Ford and Arthur take leave of the Golgafrichams and set out to find out what planet they are on. After several month of travel they make an extraordinary discovery- they are on ancient Earth. Arthur goes back to the Golgafrichams who are much fewer now, and realizes that they are the people Earthlings are descended from not the cavemen that are scattered about. The book ends with his settling into life with them, with no hope of returning to the future.
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