The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unwra guarded yellow sun Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this, most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem. But most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole, it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And so the problem remained, lots of people were mean and most of them were miserable. Even the ones with digital watches, many were increasingly of the opinion that they had all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans And then one Thursday, nearly 2000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change. A girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickman's worth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time. And she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place this time. It was right. It would work and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible stupid catastrophe occurred and the idea was lost forever. This is not her story, but it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. Not an earth book never published on Earth. And until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any earth man. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.