The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

?People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Plans for development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your earth minutes. Thank you? That was the moment when the people of earth discovered that they are not alone in the universe; Arthur Dent discovered that his friend Ford Prefect was not from Guildford after all, but a small planet ...  Read the complete review

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has long been regarded as a comedy classic and a milestone in science fiction writing, and has spawned a whole host of copycat books, most of which failed miserably to live up to the original and best. The beauty of it lies in the originality of the idea, even if some of the jokes try to be a little clever for their own good, and to be honest, some passages read quite awkwardly. That said, re-reading this novel for the first time in ages was a very enjoyable experience. A lot of it is probably because the characters and the plot are so familiar – I’ve heard the radio play, seen the 1980s TV series and read ...  Read the complete review

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been incarnated, and indeed reincarnated, in many, many forms over the years. It kicked off as a quirky BBC Radio show which ran for two series. Douglas Adams then brought his humorous science fiction adventures to television, print, stage and the "big screen". Each time the plot has evolved slightly, or taken a new direction altogether. One of the delights of the series is how Douglas Adams seamlessly weaves his narrative together - leaping through time and space, but always retaining the core characters and always maintaining a high level of wit, ingenuity and insight. This book may be getting old, but it ...  Read the complete review

FIT THE FIRST This is my opinion of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the most remarkable books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of the Milky Way. It was written by a 6 foot 5 ape descendant named Douglas Adams, although originally he no more knew that his book was going to be a publishing sensation than a lemming realises that its’ future is not in the financial sector but does in fact lie just over the edge of a large fjord somewhere in Norway. The book of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy did not actually start its life as a book at all. It did in fact begin life on a small, unregarded, ...  Read the complete review

I was shocked when I heard Douglas Adams had died, he will always live on in his comedy however. This article is therefore not written in the past tense. Douglas Adams is a visionary. In the late seventies he wrote a radio play, which later became a novel, a TV series, and possibly a film. This play was called the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (HHGG) and it was about the WAP phone. The Hitch Hikers Guide is an electronic guide to everything, a portable, wireless device; used for finding out information at the touch of a button. Reporters could also send articles over the ether for instant update. And how did Douglas Adams come up with this ...  Read the complete review