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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Earth is demolished on a Thursday. Adams makes it the funniest thing that has ever happened. Bring a towel.
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Don't Panic
Douglas Adams's 1979 novel began as a BBC radio comedy and became one of the best-loved science fiction novels of all time. Arthur Dent is whisked off Earth by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, seconds before the planet is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. They hitch a ride on the improbability drive of the spaceship Heart of Gold, encounter the depressed robot Marvin, a megalomaniac galactic president, and eventually discover that the Earth itself was a giant computer built to find the Ultimate Question. The answer, famously, is 42. The novel has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.


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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.


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Reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3 Ordinary
4 Chaotic
4 Delightful
3 Philosophical
4 Comic
3 Cheerful

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Adams claimed to have come up with the idea while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, looking at the stars with a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe beside him. The radio series premiered in 1978 before the book.
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Adams was famously unable to meet deadlines. His publisher reportedly locked him in a hotel room with an editor to force him to finish. He later said he loved deadlines because of the whooshing sound they made as they went past.


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