The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
(Douglas Adams)
Take a large, ripe baboon; squeeze it and put the contents
into a blender. Add 15 small cocktail sausages, the universe and switch on.
Providing the entire experience doesn't cause instant self-combustion the
result is usually a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which
contains all the very best parts of Douglas Adams' brain, lightly sautéed in
meths and left to ferment in the company of madmen.
It reads like any classic sci-fi shouldn't: beginning, as so often happens,
with the destruction of earth and working sideways from there. It has aliens,
who are all just trying to do their job; it has heroes who drink tea and it has
more heads than any sensible story should.
Not satisfied with simply making your brain bleed Adams goes further. He creates
a novel which, quite apart from being the exact thing the world didn't know it
was waiting for, takes a perfectly acceptable genre and pulls it round by 90
degrees (and, unknown to many observers, also through five or six dimensions).
He creates a story which has, during its long struggle for recognition and
reinterpretation, becomes sci-fi at its most thoroughly appealing.
As a reader you are forced to admit that ballpoint pens do constantly vanish
and that Adams' otherworldly explanation seems by far the most
convincing solution to the phenomena. You are brought to concede that while
Arthur Dent is outwardly rather dull and lost it's probably how you would feel
if during the course of one rather ill-fated morning your friend turned out to
be from somewhere near Betelgeuse, your planet was destroyed and you stood the
chance of never being able to have another decent cup of tea. If this book does
not make even female readers (who are naturally opposed to sci-fi) scream for
more then they deserve to be pelted with jellied eels.
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