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->-- '''DON'T PANIC.'''
When he was eighteen, drunk in a field in Innsbruck, hitchhiking across Europe, Creator/DouglasAdams looked up at the sky filled with stars and thought, “Somebody ought to write the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Then he went to sleep and almost, but not quite, forgot all about it.
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' is the trilogy-in-six-books by Adams, with the sixth book being written by ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'''s Creator/EoinColfer. It began in 1979, as an adaptation of the radio series of the same name, also written by Douglas Adams, but eventually diverged from and expanded on the plot of the original. It's arguably the best-known version of the series.
The first book, ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'', was adapted straight from the radio shows. It covers Arthur Dent's last day on Earth, meeting with the other characters, questing for the legendary planet of Magrathea, and the story of Deep Thought. It leads directly into the next book.
The second, ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'', also came from the radio version, although with many more changes and a shifting-about of the order of events. These first two books can, in many ways, be thought of as halves of the same story, in a way that the sequels aren't. In ''Restaurant'', the characters visit Milliways, the titular establishment at the rear end of time, Zaphod and Trillian attempt to discover who truly runs the universe, and Ford and Arthur end up on a spaceship full of useless people which crashes into prehistoric Earth.
The third book, ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', is the most conventionally adventure-ish book of the series; not surprising, since it was adapted from an unused ''Series/DoctorWho'' script. Ford and Arthur get pulled back to modern-day Earth, pre-explosion, where Slartbartifast enlists them and, eventually, the rest of the cast to stop the machinations of the xenophobic Krikkitmen, who, at the dawn of galactic civilization, were responsible for the bloodiest war the universe has ever seen, but who were [[Main/SealedEvilInACan sealed in a slow-time bubble]]... until now.
The fourth book, ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', is, on the other hand, probably the most character-based of the series. Arthur returns to an unexpectedly-resurrected Earth, but after his adventures among the stars, he's just as [[Main/FishOutOfWater out of his element here]] as he was when he first hitched a ride on a spaceship. He attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of the planet's dolphin population alongside his new girlfriend, Fenchurch, who is implied to be the woman featured in the first pages of the first book.
The fifth, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', is a dark romp through the corridors of probability. The Guide has been taken over by the Vogons, and Arthur has lost his love and has settled in as a sandwich-maker in a primitive tribe on a faraway planet. But then Trillian shows up with a surprise -- a teenage daughter, conceived with Arthur's donated DNA. Its creator felt it was too strongly coloured by a bitter breakup he had undergone at the time, and intended to write a sequel, but due to his infamous procrastination, died before completing anything tangible.
A sixth book, ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' was written by Creator/EoinColfer, author of the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' children's novels, and published in October 2009. Starting where ''Mostly Harmless'' left off, the tone of the book in general is much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and removes the [[DownerBeginning downer beginning]] the series ended with. There is some controversy as to whether it lives up to the main series, and it is [[FanonDiscontinuity considered non-canon by some fans]].
For all versions of the story, including the TV Series, Radio Series, Video Game/Text Adventure, Film, Theatre Plays and Comic Series, see ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
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!!''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' book series provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdaptationalVillainy: The mice. In the original radio show they held no malice towards Arthur at all; on the contrary, they offered to pay him handsomely if he found the ultimate question for them. In the book, they want to cut up his brain to extract the question manually.
* BackingIntoDanger: Parodied in the following passage:
--> Arthur backed down the passageway, feeling increasingly nervous. After a while, he realized that this was because, in every horror movie he'd ever seen, when the hero backs slowly down a passageway, he winds up backing into a monster.
-->At this point he spun round very suddenly, and saw nothing.
-->He started backing down the passageway in the other direction. After a few moments, he realized that he was now backing ''toward'' whatever he had been backing away from in the first place.
-->This, he could not help feeling, was a very foolish thing to do.
** Then he spins around again and winds up face-to-face with a monster.
* EvolutionaryStasis: It is mentioned that the Vogons stopped evolving shortly after they stopped being an aquatic species. The planet Vogsphere has created many other life forms far more appealing than the Vogons, which they inevitably destroy for their own amusement.
** To lampshade it, the book even states that evolution threw up its metaphorical hands in horror at the sight of the Vogons in daylight, refused to let them evolve again, and produced the other, amazingly beautiful creatures of Vogsphere in compensation for the Vogons.
* HappyEndingOverride: Between ''So Long and Thanks For All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless", Arthur's true love Fenchurch mysteriously disappears in-universe (it's implied that a hyperspace-travel accident caused Arthur to accidentally jump into a timeline where she never existed).
* HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies: Humans are merely unknowing experimental test subjects being monitored and controlled by other-dimensional beings who assume the forms of white mice. A more profound question is how the dolphins got here and left, since they are also superior to us.
* InUniverseFactoidFailure:
** Ford Prefect chooses his name — the name of a rather mediocre British car — apparently on the assumption that cars were the dominant species on the planet. The movie adaptation extrapolates from this the scene of Ford and Arthur's first meeting, Arthur saving Ford from attempting to shake hands with a car (a Ford Prefect, naturally).
** The Cutaway Gag sequence about the Vl'Hurg-G'Gugvuntt fleet that attempted to invade the Earth, only to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog in its entirety "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale".
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics -- a field of computations based on the non-absoluteness of the mathematics involved in restaurant dining -- and the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes the WeirdnessCensor by making something appear so ludicrously inconceivable that people just ignore it. There's also the species who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
* LemonyNarrator: A staple of Douglas Adams' work. The fictional guide itself is also written in this style.
* TheMeaningOfLife: A machine is fed information to calculate the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. The answer? [[NonAnswer 42]]. The machine can't calculate the ultimate ''question'', but it can design another machine that might...
* PostWakeUpRealization: Varies from version to version where Arthur is sometimes like this about noticing that there are bulldozers ready to knock down the house he lives in.
-->From the Book: "The word 'bulldozer' wandered through his mind for a moment, in search of something to connect with."
* ProphecyArmor: Arthur's encounter with Agrajag leaves him believing that he can't die until he's visited a planet called Stavromulos Beta, where he ducked to avoid being shot and the shot killed Agrajag instead. It turns out to actually be a nightclub on Earth called "Stavro Mueller's Beta".
* TrilogyCreep: "[[LampshadeHanging The increasingly inaccurately named]] ''Hitchhiker's'' trilogy."
* UnluckyExtra: Agrajag is an unfortunate soul that happens to reincarnate into incidental creatures that Arthur Dent accidentally kills (a pot of flowers, a fly, etc...). Agrajag eventually becomes aware of his past lives and becomes more and more spiteful toward Arthur until his dislike actually materializes into the "Cathedral of Hate", to which he eventually abducts Arthur; thanks to the vagaries of time travel, it turns out that he can't kill Arthur because one of the deaths he wants revenge for hasn't happened yet (it eventually occurs in the final chapter of ''Mostly Harmless''). Arthur proceeds to accidentally kill him again while escaping.
* WhatOtherGalaxies: The Universe is mentioned several times (the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''), yet no other galaxy is ever acknowledged. To be fair, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe is at the temporal end of the universe, not the physical end.
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->-- '''DON'T PANIC.'''
When he was eighteen, drunk in a field in Innsbruck, hitchhiking across Europe, Creator/DouglasAdams looked up at the sky filled with stars and thought, “Somebody ought to write the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Then he went to sleep and almost, but not quite, forgot all about it.
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' is the trilogy-in-six-books by Adams, with the sixth book being written by ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'''s Creator/EoinColfer. It began in 1979, as an adaptation of the radio series of the same name, also written by Douglas Adams, but eventually diverged from and expanded on the plot of the original. It's arguably the best-known version of the series.
The first book, ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'', was adapted straight from the radio shows. It covers Arthur Dent's last day on Earth, meeting with the other characters, questing for the legendary planet of Magrathea, and the story of Deep Thought. It leads directly into the next book.
The second, ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'', also came from the radio version, although with many more changes and a shifting-about of the order of events. These first two books can, in many ways, be thought of as halves of the same story, in a way that the sequels aren't. In ''Restaurant'', the characters visit Milliways, the titular establishment at the rear end of time, Zaphod and Trillian attempt to discover who truly runs the universe, and Ford and Arthur end up on a spaceship full of useless people which crashes into prehistoric Earth.
The third book, ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', is the most conventionally adventure-ish book of the series; not surprising, since it was adapted from an unused ''Series/DoctorWho'' script. Ford and Arthur get pulled back to modern-day Earth, pre-explosion, where Slartbartifast enlists them and, eventually, the rest of the cast to stop the machinations of the xenophobic Krikkitmen, who, at the dawn of galactic civilization, were responsible for the bloodiest war the universe has ever seen, but who were [[Main/SealedEvilInACan sealed in a slow-time bubble]]... until now.
The fourth book, ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', is, on the other hand, probably the most character-based of the series. Arthur returns to an unexpectedly-resurrected Earth, but after his adventures among the stars, he's just as [[Main/FishOutOfWater out of his element here]] as he was when he first hitched a ride on a spaceship. He attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of the planet's dolphin population alongside his new girlfriend, Fenchurch, who is implied to be the woman featured in the first pages of the first book.
The fifth, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', is a dark romp through the corridors of probability. The Guide has been taken over by the Vogons, and Arthur has lost his love and has settled in as a sandwich-maker in a primitive tribe on a faraway planet. But then Trillian shows up with a surprise -- a teenage daughter, conceived with Arthur's donated DNA. Its creator felt it was too strongly coloured by a bitter breakup he had undergone at the time, and intended to write a sequel, but due to his infamous procrastination, died before completing anything tangible.
A sixth book, ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' was written by Creator/EoinColfer, author of the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' children's novels, and published in October 2009. Starting where ''Mostly Harmless'' left off, the tone of the book in general is much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and removes the [[DownerBeginning downer beginning]] the series ended with. There is some controversy as to whether it lives up to the main series, and it is [[FanonDiscontinuity considered non-canon by some fans]].
For all versions of the story, including the TV Series, Radio Series, Video Game/Text Adventure, Film, Theatre Plays and Comic Series, see ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
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!!''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' book series provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdaptationalVillainy: The mice. In the original radio show they held no malice towards Arthur at all; on the contrary, they offered to pay him handsomely if he found the ultimate question for them. In the book, they want to cut up his brain to extract the question manually.
* BackingIntoDanger: Parodied in the following passage:
--> Arthur backed down the passageway, feeling increasingly nervous. After a while, he realized that this was because, in every horror movie he'd ever seen, when the hero backs slowly down a passageway, he winds up backing into a monster.
-->At this point he spun round very suddenly, and saw nothing.
-->He started backing down the passageway in the other direction. After a few moments, he realized that he was now backing ''toward'' whatever he had been backing away from in the first place.
-->This, he could not help feeling, was a very foolish thing to do.
** Then he spins around again and winds up face-to-face with a monster.
* EvolutionaryStasis: It is mentioned that the Vogons stopped evolving shortly after they stopped being an aquatic species. The planet Vogsphere has created many other life forms far more appealing than the Vogons, which they inevitably destroy for their own amusement.
** To lampshade it, the book even states that evolution threw up its metaphorical hands in horror at the sight of the Vogons in daylight, refused to let them evolve again, and produced the other, amazingly beautiful creatures of Vogsphere in compensation for the Vogons.
* HappyEndingOverride: Between ''So Long and Thanks For All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless", Arthur's true love Fenchurch mysteriously disappears in-universe (it's implied that a hyperspace-travel accident caused Arthur to accidentally jump into a timeline where she never existed).
* HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies: Humans are merely unknowing experimental test subjects being monitored and controlled by other-dimensional beings who assume the forms of white mice. A more profound question is how the dolphins got here and left, since they are also superior to us.
* InUniverseFactoidFailure:
** Ford Prefect chooses his name — the name of a rather mediocre British car — apparently on the assumption that cars were the dominant species on the planet. The movie adaptation extrapolates from this the scene of Ford and Arthur's first meeting, Arthur saving Ford from attempting to shake hands with a car (a Ford Prefect, naturally).
** The Cutaway Gag sequence about the Vl'Hurg-G'Gugvuntt fleet that attempted to invade the Earth, only to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog in its entirety "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale".
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics -- a field of computations based on the non-absoluteness of the mathematics involved in restaurant dining -- and the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes the WeirdnessCensor by making something appear so ludicrously inconceivable that people just ignore it. There's also the species who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
* LemonyNarrator: A staple of Douglas Adams' work. The fictional guide itself is also written in this style.
* TheMeaningOfLife: A machine is fed information to calculate the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. The answer? [[NonAnswer 42]]. The machine can't calculate the ultimate ''question'', but it can design another machine that might...
* PostWakeUpRealization: Varies from version to version where Arthur is sometimes like this about noticing that there are bulldozers ready to knock down the house he lives in.
-->From the Book: "The word 'bulldozer' wandered through his mind for a moment, in search of something to connect with."
* ProphecyArmor: Arthur's encounter with Agrajag leaves him believing that he can't die until he's visited a planet called Stavromulos Beta, where he ducked to avoid being shot and the shot killed Agrajag instead. It turns out to actually be a nightclub on Earth called "Stavro Mueller's Beta".
* TrilogyCreep: "[[LampshadeHanging The increasingly inaccurately named]] ''Hitchhiker's'' trilogy."
* UnluckyExtra: Agrajag is an unfortunate soul that happens to reincarnate into incidental creatures that Arthur Dent accidentally kills (a pot of flowers, a fly, etc...). Agrajag eventually becomes aware of his past lives and becomes more and more spiteful toward Arthur until his dislike actually materializes into the "Cathedral of Hate", to which he eventually abducts Arthur; thanks to the vagaries of time travel, it turns out that he can't kill Arthur because one of the deaths he wants revenge for hasn't happened yet (it eventually occurs in the final chapter of ''Mostly Harmless''). Arthur proceeds to accidentally kill him again while escaping.
* WhatOtherGalaxies: The Universe is mentioned several times (the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''), yet no other galaxy is ever acknowledged. To be fair, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe is at the temporal end of the universe, not the physical end.
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->-- '''DON'T PANIC.'''
When he was eighteen, drunk in a field in Innsbruck, hitchhiking across Europe, Creator/DouglasAdams looked up at the sky filled with stars and thought, “Somebody ought to write the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Then he went to sleep and almost, but not quite, forgot all about it.
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' is the trilogy-in-six-books by Adams, with the sixth book being written by ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'''s Creator/EoinColfer. It began in 1979, as an adaptation of the radio series of the same name, also written by Douglas Adams, but eventually diverged from and expanded on the plot of the original. It's arguably the best-known version of the series.
The first book, ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'', was adapted straight from the radio shows. It covers Arthur Dent's last day on Earth, meeting with the other characters, questing for the legendary planet of Magrathea, and the story of Deep Thought. It leads directly into the next book.
The second, ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'', also came from the radio version, although with many more changes and a shifting-about of the order of events. These first two books can, in many ways, be thought of as halves of the same story, in a way that the sequels aren't. In ''Restaurant'', the characters visit Milliways, the titular establishment at the rear end of time, Zaphod and Trillian attempt to discover who truly runs the universe, and Ford and Arthur end up on a spaceship full of useless people which crashes into prehistoric Earth.
The third book, ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', is the most conventionally adventure-ish book of the series; not surprising, since it was adapted from an unused ''Series/DoctorWho'' script. Ford and Arthur get pulled back to modern-day Earth, pre-explosion, where Slartbartifast enlists them and, eventually, the rest of the cast to stop the machinations of the xenophobic Krikkitmen, who, at the dawn of galactic civilization, were responsible for the bloodiest war the universe has ever seen, but who were [[Main/SealedEvilInACan sealed in a slow-time bubble]]... until now.
The fourth book, ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', is, on the other hand, probably the most character-based of the series. Arthur returns to an unexpectedly-resurrected Earth, but after his adventures among the stars, he's just as [[Main/FishOutOfWater out of his element here]] as he was when he first hitched a ride on a spaceship. He attempts to solve the mysterious disappearance of the planet's dolphin population alongside his new girlfriend, Fenchurch, who is implied to be the woman featured in the first pages of the first book.
The fifth, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', is a dark romp through the corridors of probability. The Guide has been taken over by the Vogons, and Arthur has lost his love and has settled in as a sandwich-maker in a primitive tribe on a faraway planet. But then Trillian shows up with a surprise -- a teenage daughter, conceived with Arthur's donated DNA. Its creator felt it was too strongly coloured by a bitter breakup he had undergone at the time, and intended to write a sequel, but due to his infamous procrastination, died before completing anything tangible.
A sixth book, ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' was written by Creator/EoinColfer, author of the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' children's novels, and published in October 2009. Starting where ''Mostly Harmless'' left off, the tone of the book in general is much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and removes the [[DownerBeginning downer beginning]] the series ended with. There is some controversy as to whether it lives up to the main series, and it is [[FanonDiscontinuity considered non-canon by some fans]].
For all versions of the story, including the TV Series, Radio Series, Video Game/Text Adventure, Film, Theatre Plays and Comic Series, see ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
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!!''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' book series provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdaptationalVillainy: The mice. In the original radio show they held no malice towards Arthur at all; on the contrary, they offered to pay him handsomely if he found the ultimate question for them. In the book, they want to cut up his brain to extract the question manually.
* BackingIntoDanger: Parodied in the following passage:
--> Arthur backed down the passageway, feeling increasingly nervous. After a while, he realized that this was because, in every horror movie he'd ever seen, when the hero backs slowly down a passageway, he winds up backing into a monster.
-->At this point he spun round very suddenly, and saw nothing.
-->He started backing down the passageway in the other direction. After a few moments, he realized that he was now backing ''toward'' whatever he had been backing away from in the first place.
-->This, he could not help feeling, was a very foolish thing to do.
** Then he spins around again and winds up face-to-face with a monster.
* EvolutionaryStasis: It is mentioned that the Vogons stopped evolving shortly after they stopped being an aquatic species. The planet Vogsphere has created many other life forms far more appealing than the Vogons, which they inevitably destroy for their own amusement.
** To lampshade it, the book even states that evolution threw up its metaphorical hands in horror at the sight of the Vogons in daylight, refused to let them evolve again, and produced the other, amazingly beautiful creatures of Vogsphere in compensation for the Vogons.
* HappyEndingOverride: Between ''So Long and Thanks For All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless", Arthur's true love Fenchurch mysteriously disappears in-universe (it's implied that a hyperspace-travel accident caused Arthur to accidentally jump into a timeline where she never existed).
* HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies: Humans are merely unknowing experimental test subjects being monitored and controlled by other-dimensional beings who assume the forms of white mice. A more profound question is how the dolphins got here and left, since they are also superior to us.
* InUniverseFactoidFailure:
** Ford Prefect chooses his name — the name of a rather mediocre British car — apparently on the assumption that cars were the dominant species on the planet. The movie adaptation extrapolates from this the scene of Ford and Arthur's first meeting, Arthur saving Ford from attempting to shake hands with a car (a Ford Prefect, naturally).
** The Cutaway Gag sequence about the Vl'Hurg-G'Gugvuntt fleet that attempted to invade the Earth, only to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog in its entirety "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale".
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics -- a field of computations based on the non-absoluteness of the mathematics involved in restaurant dining -- and the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes the WeirdnessCensor by making something appear so ludicrously inconceivable that people just ignore it. There's also the species who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
* LemonyNarrator: A staple of Douglas Adams' work. The fictional guide itself is also written in this style.
* TheMeaningOfLife: A machine is fed information to calculate the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. The answer? [[NonAnswer 42]]. The machine can't calculate the ultimate ''question'', but it can design another machine that might...
* PostWakeUpRealization: Varies from version to version where Arthur is sometimes like this about noticing that there are bulldozers ready to knock down the house he lives in.
-->From the Book: "The word 'bulldozer' wandered through his mind for a moment, in search of something to connect with."
* ProphecyArmor: Arthur's encounter with Agrajag leaves him believing that he can't die until he's visited a planet called Stavromulos Beta, where he ducked to avoid being shot and the shot killed Agrajag instead. It turns out to actually be a nightclub on Earth called "Stavro Mueller's Beta".
* TrilogyCreep: "[[LampshadeHanging The increasingly inaccurately named]] ''Hitchhiker's'' trilogy."
* UnluckyExtra: Agrajag is an unfortunate soul that happens to reincarnate into incidental creatures that Arthur Dent accidentally kills (a pot of flowers, a fly, etc...). Agrajag eventually becomes aware of his past lives and becomes more and more spiteful toward Arthur until his dislike actually materializes into the "Cathedral of Hate", to which he eventually abducts Arthur; thanks to the vagaries of time travel, it turns out that he can't kill Arthur because one of the deaths he wants revenge for hasn't happened yet (it eventually occurs in the final chapter of ''Mostly Harmless''). Arthur proceeds to accidentally kill him again while escaping.
* WhatOtherGalaxies: The Universe is mentioned several times (the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''), yet no other galaxy is ever acknowledged. To be fair, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe is at the temporal end of the universe, not the physical end.
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-->At this point he spun round very suddenly, and saw nothing.
-->He started backing down the passageway in the other direction. After a few moments, he realized that he was now backing ''toward'' whatever he had been backing away from in the first place.
-->This, he could not help feeling, was a very foolish thing to do.
** Then he spins around again and winds up face-to-face with a monster.
--> Arthur backed down the passageway, feeling increasingly nervous. After a while, he realized that this was because, in every horror movie he'd ever seen, when the hero backs slowly down a passageway, he winds up backing into a monster.
-->At this point he spun round very suddenly, and saw nothing.
-->He started backing down the passageway in the other direction. After a few moments, he realized that he was now backing ''toward'' whatever he had been backing away from in the first place.
-->This, he could not help feeling, was a very foolish thing to do.
** Then he spins around again and winds up face-to-face with a monster.
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A sixth book, ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' was written by Eoin Colfer, author of the Literature/ArtemisFowl children's novels, and published in October 2009. Starting where ''Mostly Harmless'' left off, the tone of the book in general is much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and removes the [[DownerBeginning downer beginning]] the series ended with. There is some controversy as to whether it lives up to the main series, and it is [[FanonDiscontinuity considered non-canon by some fans]].
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A sixth book, ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' was written by Eoin Colfer, Creator/EoinColfer, author of the Literature/ArtemisFowl ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' children's novels, and published in October 2009. Starting where ''Mostly Harmless'' left off, the tone of the book in general is much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and removes the [[DownerBeginning downer beginning]] the series ended with. There is some controversy as to whether it lives up to the main series, and it is [[FanonDiscontinuity considered non-canon by some fans]].
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A sixth book, ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' was written by Eoin Colfer, author of the Literature/ArtemisFowl children's novels, and published in October 2009. Starting where ''Mostly Harmless'' left off, the tone of the book in general is much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and removes the [[DownerBeginning downer beginning]] the series ended with. There is some controversy as to whether it lives up to the main series, and it is [[FanonDiscontinuity considered non-canon by some fans]].
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* HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies: Humans are merely unknowing experimental test subjects being monitored and controlled by other-dimensional beings who assume the forms of white mice. A more profound question is how the dolphins got here and left, since they are also superior to us.
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* DownerEnding: In ''Mostly Harmless''. [[spoiler:A malevolent plot by a reality-warping entity causes the Guide to be taken over and robbed of its soul by an evil publishing conglomerate, the Earth to be destroyed in every single timeline, and all the regular characters except Zaphod to be killed. Adams later regretted this and intended to retcon it out in a sixth novel, but his real-life death intervened.]]
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* TheDitz: Taken UpToEleven with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. It's said to be the stupidest creature in the universe and thinks that if you can't see it, it can't see you (read that last part carefully.)
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* TheDitz: Taken UpToEleven with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. It's said to be the stupidest creature in the universe and thinks that if you can't see it, it can't see you (read that last part carefully.)
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* GeniusBonus: "Frood" is slang for "really-together person", and the Old English "frōd" meant "wise" or "experienced". Uncertain if this was intentional or not.
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* GeniusBonus: "Frood" is slang for "really-together person", and the Old English "frōd" meant "wise" or "experienced". Uncertain if this was intentional or not.
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics -- a field of computations based on the non-absoluteness of the mathematics involved in restaurant dining -- and the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes the WeirdnessCensor by making something appear so ludicrously inconceivable that people just ignore it. There's also the guy who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics -- a field of computations based on the non-absoluteness of the mathematics involved in restaurant dining -- and the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes the WeirdnessCensor by making something appear so ludicrously inconceivable that people just ignore it. There's also the guy species who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
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* InUniverseFactoidFailure:
** Ford Prefect chooses his name — the name of a rather mediocre British car — apparently on the assumption that cars were the dominant species on the planet. The movie adaptation extrapolates from this the scene of Ford and Arthur's first meeting, Arthur saving Ford from attempting to shake hands with a car (a Ford Prefect, naturally).
** The Cutaway Gag sequence about the Vl'Hurg-G'Gugvuntt fleet that attempted to invade the Earth, only to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog in its entirety "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale".
** Ford Prefect chooses his name — the name of a rather mediocre British car — apparently on the assumption that cars were the dominant species on the planet. The movie adaptation extrapolates from this the scene of Ford and Arthur's first meeting, Arthur saving Ford from attempting to shake hands with a car (a Ford Prefect, naturally).
** The Cutaway Gag sequence about the Vl'Hurg-G'Gugvuntt fleet that attempted to invade the Earth, only to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog in its entirety "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale".
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* PostWakeUpRealization: Varies from version to version where Arthur is sometimes like this about noticing that there are bulldozers ready to knock down the house he lives in.
-->From the Book: "The word 'bulldozer' wandered through his mind for a moment, in search of something to connect with."
-->From the Book: "The word 'bulldozer' wandered through his mind for a moment, in search of something to connect with."
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics -- a field of computations based on the non-absoluteness of the mathematics involved in restaurant dining -- and the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes the WeirdnessCensor by making something appear so inconceivably ludicrous ludicrously inconceivable that people just ignore it. There's also the guy who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes WeirdnessCensor by making people ignore it. There's also the guy who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The series' phlebotinum runs entirely on RuleOfFunny. Among other things, we have the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics -- a field of computations based on the non-absoluteness of the mathematics involved in restaurant dining -- and the Somebody Else's Problem field, a [[StealthInSpace cloaking device]] that weaponizes the WeirdnessCensor by making something appear so inconceivably ludicrous that people just ignore it. There's also the guy who built a starship powered by bad news, but nobody wanted it to show up.
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''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' is the trilogy-in-six-books by Creator/DouglasAdams, with the sixth book being written by ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'''s Creator/EoinColfer. It began in 1979, as an adaptation of the radio series of the same name, also written by Douglas Adams, but eventually diverged from and expanded on the plot of the original. It's arguably the best-known version of the series.
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When he was eighteen, drunk in a field in Innsbruck, hitchhiking across Europe, Creator/DouglasAdams looked up at the sky filled with stars and thought, “Somebody ought to write the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Then he went to sleep and almost, but not quite, forgot all about it.
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' is the trilogy-in-six-books byCreator/DouglasAdams, Adams, with the sixth book being written by ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'''s Creator/EoinColfer. It began in 1979, as an adaptation of the radio series of the same name, also written by Douglas Adams, but eventually diverged from and expanded on the plot of the original. It's arguably the best-known version of the series.
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' is the trilogy-in-six-books by
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The mice. In the original radio show they held no malice towards Arthur at all; on the contrary, they offered to pay him handsomely if he found the ultimate question for them. In the book, they want to cut up his brain to extract the question manually.
