The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, 1979
The Earth is demolished for a bypass, and a man in his dressing gown must hitch across a galaxy run on bad bureaucracy and good towels.
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Feels like wonder, power and time.
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Hitchhiker's began as a 1978 BBC Radio 4 series; Adams was also the youngest script editor Doctor Who ever had.
What it actually costs to see yourself at true scale.
“Have some sense of proportion!” she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex—just to show her.And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Books by Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, 1979
A hapless Englishman is swept off a doomed planet by an alien researcher, armed only with a towel and a very unreliable guide.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams, 1980
The universe is ending, the food is excellent, and the only sane response is a joke — Adams's second Hitchhiker's novel.
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