Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy contains the five wonderful novel “trilogy” written by Douglas Adams. Douglas Adams writes a sci-fi series that I decided to listen to through the semester. These books have reached high levels of popularity due to the humor and it is easy to see why. While the first book of the series is the best and funniest of them all, the following four do not disappoint.

The series follows Arthur Dent, a human from the planet Earth who unknowingly befriends and alien named Ford Prefect who has been trapped on Earth for years. The Earth gets destroyed while the pair makes an escape and Arthur learns of a life outside of Earth and follows Ford Prefect, one of the many editors of the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The two of them continue space exploration while meeting the galaxy president, a two headed, three armed alien who steals the galaxy’s most expensive space ship and travel through time and space. The five books follows Arthur Dent through all his adventures from finding the answer to the universe, finding the reason for the existence of Earth, going to the Restaurant at the end of the universe, finding his planet Earth restored and falling in love, and then again losing his home planet.

Much happens in the universe created by Douglas Adams. He created and explored lots of different areas of science fiction. His ideas were genius, incredibly creative and original all the while making you laugh throughout the whole series. The idea of creating a guide to hitchhiking the galaxy and having to constantly edit this massive book of encyclopedic knowledge is so unique and fun to read. Not only does Douglas Adams create some of the best atmospheres and ideas, but his characters were all very interesting as well as the many alien races he had come up with. Many of the ideas of his novels have made a huge impact on the science fiction community all the while he made you laugh.