The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is
delightful scifi silliness, a romp through the universe by a human and
his alien friend. Arthur Dent of the UK is rescued with Ford Prefect by
a spaceship just before the Earth is destroyed by Vogons to make way
for a hyperspatial bypass. As their adventures begin, Arthur learns
that Ford is not from Guildford but from a small planet near
Betelguese, and that Ford is a researcher for the electronic book The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy.
When Vogons cast them into space, once again the pair is improbably
saved at the last split-second — this time by the spaceship The
Heart of Gold, at whose controls
is the fugitive ex-president of the galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox. Zaphod
steers them to the legendary planet of Magrethea, where a race of
superintelligent beings built supercomputers to answer the ultimate
questions. The topnotch “computer” was the Earth,
destroyed before it yielded its results. Earth’s
representative — Arthur — is at risk of a brain
dissection, but he escapes once again.
The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
began as a BBC radio comedy. The
book of the same name was followed by five more books, a stage show,
comic-book adaptations, a computer game, a television series, and a
film.
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