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''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'' is the second book in the [[Trilogy Creep|increasingly inaccurately-named]] ''[[The
Following directly after the events of ''[[The
Instead, our heroes go out to lunch at "the nearest place to eat" -- which turns out to be the luxurious Milliways, the titular restaurant, where diners can enjoy witnessing the destruction of all creation while being treated by [[Let's Meet the Meat|food that literally begs to be eaten]] and entertained by the stylings of stand-up comedian Max Quordlepleen. Following an incident involving a dead rock star's high-class stunt spaceship and a rather large sun, Arthur and Ford end up teleported onto a massive space ark full of telephone sanitation engineers (among other middlebrow professions) two million years into the past... while Zaphod and Trillian end up right back where they started.
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In the end, Zarniwoop drags Zaphod and Trillian along with him to meet the man who rules the universe... and gets an unpleasant shock when he finds out what they're like. And Arthur and Ford find themselves stranded on a prehistoric Earth, where the true and shocking origins of the human species -- and the final outcome of the program to find the Ultimate Question -- are gradually revealed to them.
Preceded by ''[[The
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* [[Let's Meet the Meat]] - [[Trope Namer]]. A genetically-engineered bovine alien at the titular restaurant offers itself as food for Milliways's patrons.
* [[Literal Minded]] - Eddie, the ship's computer for the ''Heart of Gold''. Zaphod asks for it to send them to the nearest place to eat -- so it sends them to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which is on the same planet (Frogstar World B) but 576,000,000,000 years into the future.
* [[Meanwhile in
* [[Norse Mythology]] - A group of small Asgardian deities dines at Milliways, marking the start of the Adams-verse's flirtation with ancient Scandinavia.
* [[Only Mostly Dead]] - Hotblack Desiato.
* [[Planning
* [[Put Off Their Food]]: During the dinner at Milliways, Arthur initially orders a steak, changes to a salad when he finds out what the steak comes from, and eventually settles for a glass of water.
* [[The Slow Path]]: Marvin, who parks cars on Frogstar B for 567,000,000,000 years.
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