The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Why are people born? Why do they die? And why do they spend much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?"''}}

 

To boil it down to the essentials, Arthur Dent, a fairly normal if feckless Earthling, wakes up one Thursday and, after a series of confusing events, is spirited away from Earth by his friend, Ford Prefect, right before [[Earthshattering Kaboom|the planet is destroyed]]. He then hooks up with Zaphod Beeblebrox, former President of the Galaxy, current fugitive, and all-around cool guy; Marvin the Paranoid Android, a sarcastic and chronically depressed AI; and Tricia McMillian, AKA Trillian, [[The Chick]] and the only other human being left. Zaphod is on a quest to find The Truth, and everyone else gets pulled along for the ride.

 

There have been many adaptations over the years, each one starting from this point and then branching off in a different direction. Adams himself has been part of most of these, and thus, they all have some level of "officialness"; it's less a single "original" with an [[Expanded Universe]], and more a string of multi-media [[Alternate Continuity|Alternate Continuities]].

The books, in order, are:

 

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Life, The Universe And Everything|Life The Universe And Everything]]''

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long And Thanks For All The Fish|So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]''