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- Adams famously came up with the need for a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk and poor in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, while backpacking around Europe before going to university.
- In a wonderful twist in keeping with the book’s opening premise of Earth being demolished to make way for a motorway, the Innsbruck field has since been paved over to make way for a stretch of autobahn.
- There is some disagreement as to the correct writing of the book’s title, notably in the book itself, where it ranges from Hitch-hiker’s to Hitchhiker’s and Hitch Hiker’s, with and without apostrophes, depending on whether you are looking at the cover, the spine, the contents, the radio outline, or the American version.
- Arthur Dent was to be called Aleric B before a last-minute replacement in the script outline Adams pitched to the BBC. He had originally thought of writing six episodes in which the Earth ended differently each time, but needed a means of explaining the universe at which point he remembered his idea from Innsbruck.
Like a lot of things that gained a popular following, Hitchhiker's Guide has been somewhat blown out of proportion by people raving about how phenomenal it is. There are few subjects of such broad popularity that actually live up to that popularity, at least in the sense that not every person who tries to get into it will find themselves satisfied.
Oct 17, 2021 · The first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book was published in October 1979. ... "There's a lot of jokes in the Hitchhiker's book about ... 40 or 50 years but at 42 — and everyone knows why ...
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- If you’re ever stuck on a question, you know the answer is, of course, just “42.”
- Forget “Keep Calm and Carry On.” The book teaches this motto: Don’t Panic, written in very friendly letters on the front of the actual Hitchhiker’s Guide.
- You learn to always know where your towel is, because that thing can save your neck in more ways that you can count.
- Dolphins are smarter than humans — but they’re still thankful for all that fish.
The first, developed by Atatio, was called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Vogon Planet Destructor. [79] It was a typical top-down shooter and except for the title had little to do with the actual story. The second game, developed by TKO Software, was a graphical adventure game named The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Adventure Game. [80]
Apr 26, 2022 · "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the 2005 adaptation of the first book in Douglas Adams' beloved science fiction series, nobly attempts this balancing act as best it can. The book was ...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in Douglas Adams’s series of five novels tracing Arthur Dent’s journey through space. The second installation is called The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and it picks up where The Hitchhiker’s Guide leaves off, following Arthur and his friends as they leave Magrathea and head for a “quick bite” at—of course—the ...
