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The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy “Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.” It is a Thursday. Lunchtime. It passes doubly fast as normal time. The Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Arthur Dent is a mere mortal, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, and he seems overwhelmed by this (I would be too, poor sod). Sadly, however, the weekend has yet to begin, and his best friend is surely not what he seems to be. Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of the The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, had been posing as an out of work actor. Thus begins the epic journey through space aided by the ever helpful The Hitch Hiker’s Guide “A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have” and a shipful of fellow roamers: Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-exex-hippie and completely pro-lunch President Of The Galaxy; Tricia McMillan which is long for Trillian, Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur hit on at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, the paranoid android whose capacity for happiness could fill up an entire box of matches; and, of course, the whale. This article is not about the aforementioned events.
A Saahil Dama, Ishan Dabri, Krushna Dande production.
On October 12, 1979, a novelization of this wildly popular British radio series was first published. In the next 22 years, the author became an icon of humorous geek literature. He went on to write four sequels