The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the…

by Douglas Adams

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2)

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Trillian (Tricia McMillan)

Marvin (the paranoid android)

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Milliways

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Epigraph

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced y something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Dedication

To Jane and James
with many thanks
to Geoffrey Perkins for achieving the Improbable
to Paddy Kingsland, Lisa Braun and Alick Hale Munro
for helping him
to John Lloyd for his help with the original Milliways script
to Simon Brett for starting the whole thing off
to the Paul Simon album One Trick Pony which I played
incessantly while writing this book. Five years is far too
long
And with very special thanks to Jacqui Graham for infinite
patience, kindness and food in adversity

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The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is the title of second in a series of novels (as well as the second in a series of radio dramas). The five works in the series are generally referred to as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", as is the series of radio dramas. Though there are unabridged audio recordings of these works, the radio dramas are considerably different from the printed works.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345418921, Paperback)

"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."
--The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat.
Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food (literally) speaks for itself.
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that the Hitchhiker's Guide deleted the term "Future Perfect" from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
"What's such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams' sardonically silly eyes."
--Detroit Free Press

From the Paperback edition.

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:47:08 -0400)

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