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"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams
Starring Peter Jones as ‘The Book’, with Simon Jones and Geoffrey McGivern
This is the story of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book,
ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor.
More popular than "The Celestial Homecare Omnibus"
better selling than "Fifty-Three More Things To Do In Zero Gravity"
and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters:
"Where God Went Wrong"
"Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes" and...
"Who Is This God Person Anyway".
And in many of the more relaxed civilizations on the outer eastern rim of the galaxy,
the "Hitch-Hiker's Guide" has already supplanted the great ‘Encyclopaedia Galactica’
as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom.
Because although it has many omissions, contains much that is apocryphal
- or at least wildly inaccurate -it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important ways:
first, it is slightly cheaper, and second...
it has the words ‘Don’t Panic’ inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.
To tell the story of the book, it's best to tell the story of some of the minds behind it.
A human, from the planet Earth, was one of them, though as our story opens...
he no more knows his destiny than a tea-leaf knows the history of the East India Company
His name is Arthur Dent, he is a six-foot tall ape descendant...
and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his home.