Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Several years ago I saw from the movie with the same name. It caught my attention. Some years later I saw this book and relate it to that movie which had only seen the trailer. But I do not call attention. More recently, I saw a posting on one blog that I follow, which spoke of the series of three books of Douglas Adams, and download all three books. This Saturday, looking for something to read on the SAB upload it and started reading. I was immediately struck by his satire.

Abstract

The book begins on the day that Arthur's house would be demolished to build a bypass road. Those affected have been notified so they do not realize the problem, lampooning the transparency of our authorities, which make information public, but so that no one really finds it. And also, at the same time, the earth is about to be demolished because it is in the same place where Galactic plans to construct a diversion, and information about the demolition has been published for years in Alpha Centauri, and is problem of us Earthlings the not interest in our neighborhood not to have gone to review. And indeed the earth is destroyed.

Arthur, however, is saved by Ford Prefect, an alien who had come to earth some time before hitching, making it also saved along with Arthur for the demolition of Earth. They are thus collected by Dentrassi (cooks in the Vogon ships) and Arthur enters the galactic world with the "galactic hitchhiker's guide".

Unfortunately for Arthur, and Ford, the hitchhiker Vogon hated, so it was only a matter of time before it decides to locate and be done with them, if you throw the vacuum of space or read Vogon poetry before releasing the vacuum of space (Vogon poetry is the third worst poetry in the galaxy). So they inevitably launched into space, where it chanced that they were rescued by the Heart of gold, ship stolen moments earlier galactic president, Zaphod Beeblebrox, who proved to be a distant cousin of Ford, and who knew Arthur for who walked away on their side to Tricia McMillan, a girl who tried to board at a party in London. In fact, Tricia, under the name of Trillian, was aboard the ship and was the second survivor of the Earth.

That's how they all finish aboard the Heart of Gold on the surface of the planet Magrathea, a planet where planets are built to custom, which had been lost for millennia, to the point that this was believed that their existence was not more than a myth. After surviving an attack with nuclear missiles to get them away from the planet, landing and broke: Arthur and Marvin (a manic depressive robot) were left guarding the entrance to the tunnels, through which Zaphod, Ford and Trillian came.

Arthur however is in the earth's surface to a mysterious old man, who after verifying the personality of the robot, decides to bring Arthur to show the construction of a special order, for which they have been particularly aroused. What is amazing is that Arthur, as they build the Earth, or replace it. And most are surprised to learn that the original Earth was actually an organic supercomputer, built and run by mice, in order to find the question for the definitive answer to life, the universe and everything, which incidentally is 42. When the earth was destroyed by the Vogon, missing only five minutes for the supercomputer issue the expected response, which had been calculated for ten and a half million years. For this reason, again had to build the supercomputer. However, on the other hand, the mice had found Ford, Zaphod and Trillian, and learned that a Terran had survived the annihilation of the earth, so it felt that the question should be set in your brain to be an organic part organic computer, so they decide they no longer need the planet, and they need the brain of Arthur. In the struggle for the brain and survival are, when the pursuers are Beeblebrox, with the intention of capturing him for stealing the Heart of Gold.

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Galactic Hitchhiker's Guide is the first in a series of five books. What captured me from the first paragraphs is the irony of writing that stands out. It's hard to know which came first, given the evolution of this story from a radio comedy to a film. Therefore, I do not know if the fish is named in honor of the translator babelfish or vice versa.

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