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This ERC20 Token: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (H2G2) is NOT meant to have any intrinsic (fundamental) value nor any monetary value
whatsoever. It is designed to honour the memory of Douglas Noel Adams. However, it is possible that this token may accrue value over time,
although this is HIGHLY UNLIKELY. Any such valuation would likely be based entirely upon speculation, current market conditions, the actions of
other fanatical Douglas Adams fans (such as myself) and a myriad of other such conditions and/or factors. These factors and conditions may
include, but are not limited to, the magnitude (quantity) and frequency (volume) of funds being traded for this token, if any. In the unlikely
event that this token should gain monetary value at some future date, then a novel use of this token might be to trade value and/or pay for
memorabilia between fans and collectors of Douglas Adams memorabilia, publications and so forth. Again, do NOT count on this token to acquire any
value of any kind as it has been created solely for the purpose of honouring the memory of Douglas Adams. Should you decide to purchase this token
which, again, is NOT recommended, then please be aware that they are non-refundable. See also the supplemental token: HHGTTG (h2g2), as detailed
below. The supplemental token HHGTTG (h2g2) will be distributed via an airdop to the TOP 42 HOLDERS of this (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[H2G2]) token. Whereas this (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [H2G2])token has a total supply of 42,000,000; the supplemental token will have
a total supply of ONLY 42 tokens @ 18 decimals and will be airdropped when greater than 55% of this (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [H2G2])
token has been distributed, however long that may take. Although these tokens, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (H2G2) and HHGTTG (h2g2) are
not intended to have value, they may be acquired by sending eth to the contract address at a rate of 1000 H2G2 tokens per 1 eth and 1 h2g2 token
per 1 eth. The price of h2g2 is intentionally set high to discourage purchase leaving a larger quantity for the airdrop (keep in mind that there
exists a sum total of ONLY 42 h2g2 tokens and 42,000,000 H2G2 tokens). Note that the "ticker" symbols for these two tokens differ only in case,
with H2G2 being The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy token (42,000,000) and h2g2 being the HHGTTG token (42). No disrespect is intended to the
memory of Douglas Noel Adams, nor his estate and heirs and neither to the BBC - all to whom I remain thankful for these wonderful works of
artistic fiction. Now then, let's get on with the tribute:
The day of 11 May 2001 would become one of the worst days of my life for that is the date on which Douglas Adams died of heart failure. My one
true hero ceased to exist as did my hope of a further H2G2 (HG2G) novel, although Eoin Colfer would eventually pen "And Another Thing", it just
wasn't the same. If your interest in this token is piqued, then you will no doubt know WHY the Total Supply is 42,000,000 Tokens. The original
intent was to have the total supply limited to only 42 Tokens with 18 decimal places resulting in the ability to acquire as little as
.000000000000000001 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (H2G2) Tokens. Setting the maximum supply to only 42 would have severely limited the
utility of this Token, as there are far more than 42 fans of Douglas Adams in this Universe. A supplemental token WILL be created which will have
a total supply of ONLY 42 tokens and will be distributed to the 42 highest holders of this token (in an amount to be determined). The following
text has been lifted from WikiPedia on 8 June 2018. To see the most recent version of this text, visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author
of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold
more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature
film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective
Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), Last
Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who; he also served as script editor for the show's seventeenth season in
1979. A posthumous collection of his works, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. Adams was an advocate for
environmentalism and conservation, a lover of fast cars, technological innovation and the Apple Macintosh, and a radical atheist.
Early life: Adams was born on 11 March 1952 to Janet (née Donovan; 1927–2016) and Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985) in Cambridge, England. The
Family moved to the East End of London a few months after his birth, where his sister, Susan, was born three years later. His parents divorced in
1957; Douglas, Susan, and their mother moved to an RSPCA animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex, run by his maternal grandparents.
Education: Adams attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood. At nine, he passed the entrance exam for Brentwood School, an independent
school whose alumni include Robin Day, Jack Straw, Noel Edmonds, and David Irving. Griff Rhys Jones was a year below him, and he was in the same
class as Stuckist artist Charles Thomson. He attended the prep school from 1959 to 1964, then the main school until December 1970. Adams was 6
feet (1.8 m) by age 12 and stopped growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m). His form master, Frank Halford, said his height had made him stand out and
that he had been self-conscious about it. His ability to write stories made him well known in the school. He became the only student ever to be
awarded a ten out of ten by Halford for creative writing, something he remembered for the rest of his life, particularly when facing writer's
block. Some of his earliest writing was published at the school, such as a report on its photography club in The Brentwoodian in 1962, or spoof
reviews in the school magazine Broadsheet, edited by Paul Neil Milne Johnstone, who later became a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide. He also
designed the cover of one issue of the Broadsheet, and had a letter and short story published in The Eagle, the boys' comic, in 1965. A poem
entitled "A Dissertation on the task of writing a poem on a candle and an account of some of the difficulties thereto pertaining" written by Adams
in January 1970, at the age of 17, was discovered in a cupboard at the school in early 2014. On the strength of a bravura essay on religious
poetry that discussed the Beatles and William Blake, he was awarded an Exhibition in English at St John's College, Cambridge, going up in 1971. He
wanted to join the Footlights, an invitation-only student comedy club that has acted as a hothouse for comic talent. He was not elected
immediately as he had hoped, and started to write and perform in revues with Will Adams (no relation) and Martin Smith, forming a group called
"Adams-Smith-Adams", but became a member of the Footlights by 1973. Despite doing very little work—he recalled having completed three essays in
three years—he graduated in 1974 with a B.A. in English literature.
Career: Writing: After leaving university Adams moved back to London, determined to break into TV and radio as a writer. An edited version of the
Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 television in 1974. A version of the Revue performed live in London's West End led to Adams being discovered by
Monty Python's Graham Chapman. The two formed a brief writing partnership, earning Adams a writing credit in episode 45 of Monty Python for a
sketch called "Patient Abuse". The pair also co-wrote the "Marilyn Monroe" sketch which appeared on the soundtrack album of Monty Python and the
Holy Grail. Adams is one of only two people other than the original Python members to get a writing credit (the other being Neil Innes). Adams had
two brief appearances in the fourth series of Monty Python's Flying Circus. At the beginning of episode 42, "The Light Entertainment War", Adams
is in a surgeon's mask (as Dr. Emile Koning, according to on-screen captions), pulling on gloves, while Michael Palin narrates a sketch that
introduces one person after another but never gets started. At the beginning of episode 44, "Mr. Neutron", Adams is dressed in a pepper-pot outfit
and loads a missile onto a cart driven by Terry Jones, who is calling for scrap metal ("Any old iron..."). The two episodes were broadcast in
November 1974. Adams and Chapman also attempted non-Python projects, including Out of the Trees. At this point Adams's career stalled; his writing
style was unsuited to the then-current style of radio and TV comedy. To make ends meet he took a series of odd jobs, including as a hospital
porter, barn builder, and chicken shed cleaner. He was employed as a bodyguard by a Qatari family, who had made their fortune in oil. During this
time Adams continued to write and submit sketches, though few were accepted. In 1976 his career had a brief improvement when he wrote and
performed Unpleasantness at Brodie's Close at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. By Christmas, work had dried up again, and a depressed Adams moved to
live with his mother. The lack of writing work hit him hard and low confidence became a feature of Adams's life; "I have terrible periods of lack
of confidence. I briefly did therapy, but after a while I realised it was like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather –
you just have to get on with it". Some of Adams's early radio work included sketches for The Burkiss Way in 1977 and The News Huddlines. He also
wrote, again with Chapman, the 20 February 1977 episode of Doctor on the Go, a sequel to the Doctor in the House television comedy series. After
the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide became successful, Adams was made a BBC radio producer, working on Week Ending and a pantomime
called Black Cinderella Two Goes East. He left after six months to become the script editor for Doctor Who. In 1979 Adams and John Lloyd wrote
scripts for two half-hour episodes of Doctor Snuggles: "The Remarkable Fidgety River" and "The Great Disappearing Mystery" (episodes eight and
twelve). John Lloyd was also co-author of two episodes from the original Hitchhiker radio series ("Fit the Fifth" and "Fit the Sixth", also known
as "Episode Five" and "Episode Six"), as well as The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by
Adams and radio producer Simon Brett to BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories
(reprinted in Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used in the series. According
to Adams, the idea for the title occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing at the stars. He was carrying a copy
of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe, and it occurred to him that "somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He later said that
the constant repetition of this anecdote had obliterated his memory of the actual event. Despite the original outline, Adams was said to make up
the stories as he wrote. He turned to John Lloyd for help with the final two episodes of the first series. Lloyd contributed bits from an
unpublished science fiction book of his own, called GiGax. Very little of Lloyd's material survived in later adaptations of Hitchhiker's, such as
the novels and the TV series. The TV series was based on the first six radio episodes, and sections contributed by Lloyd were largely re-written.
BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio series weekly in the UK in March and April 1978. The series was distributed in the United States by National
Public Radio. Following the success of the first series, another episode was recorded and broadcast, which was commonly known as the Christmas
Episode. A second series of five episodes was broadcast one per night, during the week of 21–25 January 1980. While working on the radio series
(and with simultaneous projects such as The Pirate Planet) Adams developed problems keeping to writing deadlines that got worse as he published
novels. Adams was never a prolific writer and usually had to be forced by others to do any writing. This included being locked in a hotel suite
with his editor for three weeks to ensure that So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was completed. He was quoted as saying, "I love deadlines. I
love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Despite the difficulty with deadlines, Adams wrote five novels in the series, published in
1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, and 1992. The books formed the basis for other adaptations, such as three-part comic book adaptations for each of the
first three books, an interactive text-adventure computer game, and a photo-illustrated edition, published in 1994. This latter edition featured a
42 Puzzle designed by Adams, which was later incorporated into paperback covers of the first four Hitchhiker's novels (the paperback for the fifth
re-used the artwork from the hardback edition). In 1980 Adams began attempts to turn the first Hitchhiker's novel into a film, making several
trips to Los Angeles, and working with Hollywood studios and potential producers. The next year, the radio series became the basis for a BBC
television mini-series broadcast in six parts. When he died in 2001 in California, he had been trying again to get the movie project started with
Disney, which had bought the rights in 1998. The screenplay got a posthumous re-write by Karey Kirkpatrick, and the resulting film was released in
2005. Radio producer Dirk Maggs had consulted with Adams, first in 1993, and later in 1997 and 2000 about creating a third radio series, based on
the third novel in the Hitchhiker's series. They also discussed the possibilities of radio adaptations of the final two novels in the five-book
"trilogy". As with the movie, this project was realised only after Adams's death. The third series, The Tertiary Phase, was broadcast on BBC Radio
4 in September 2004 and was subsequently released on audio CD. With the aid of a recording of his reading of Life, the Universe and Everything and
editing, Adams can be heard playing the part of Agrajag posthumously. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless made up the fourth
and fifth radio series, respectively (on radio they were titled The Quandary Phase and The Quintessential Phase) and these were broadcast in May
and June 2005, and also subsequently released on Audio CD. The last episode in the last series (with a new, "more upbeat" ending) concluded with,
"The very final episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is affectionately dedicated to its author."
Dirk Gently series: Between Adams's first trip to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine in 1985, and their series of travels that formed the basis for
the radio series and non-fiction book Last Chance to See, Adams wrote two other novels with a new cast of characters. Dirk Gently's Holistic
Detective Agency was published in 1987, and was described by its author as "a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic,
mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics". It was derived from two Doctor Who serials Adams had written. A sequel, The Long Dark
Tea-Time of the Soul, was published a year later. This was an entirely original work, Adams's first since So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
After the book tour, Adams set off on his round-the-world excursion which supplied him with the material for Last Chance to See.
Doctor Who: Adams sent the script for the HHGG pilot radio programme to the Doctor Who production office in 1978, and was commissioned to write
The Pirate Planet (see below). He had also previously attempted to submit a potential movie script, called "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen", which
later became his novel Life, the Universe and Everything (which in turn became the third Hitchhiker's Guide radio series). Adams then went on to
serve as script editor on the show for its seventeenth season in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker as the
Doctor: "The Pirate Planet" (the second serial in the "Key to Time" arc, in season 16) "City of Death" (with producer Graham Williams, from an
original storyline by writer David Fisher. It was transmitted under the pseudonym "David Agnew") "Shada" (only partially filmed; not televised due
to industry disputes) The episodes authored by Adams are some of the few that were not novelised as Adams would not allow anyone else to write
them, and asked for a higher price than the publishers were willing to pay. "Shada" was later adapted as a novel by Gareth Roberts in 2012 and
"City of Death" and "The Pirate Planet" by James Goss in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Elements of Shada and City of Death were reused in Adams's
later novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in particular the character of Professor Chronotis. Big Finish Productions eventually remade
Shada as an audio play starring Paul McGann as the Doctor. Accompanied by partially animated illustrations, it was webcast on the BBC website in
2003, and subsequently released as a two-CD set later that year. An omnibus edition of this version was broadcast on the digital radio station
BBC7 on 10 December 2005. In the Doctor Who 2012 Christmas episode The Snowmen, writer Steven Moffat was inspired by a storyline that Adams
pitched called The Doctor Retires.
Music: Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of twenty-four left-handed guitars when he died (having received his first guitar
in 1964). He also studied piano in the 1960s with the same teacher as Paul Wickens, the pianist who plays in Paul McCartney's band (and composed
the music for the 2004–2005 editions of the Hitchhiker's Guide radio series). Pink Floyd and Procol Harum had important influence on Adams' work.
Pink Floyd: Adams's official biography shares its name with the song "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. Adams was friends with Pink Floyd
guitarist David Gilmour and, on Adams's 42nd birthday, he was invited to make a guest appearance at Pink Floyd's concert of 28 October 1994 at
Earls Court in London, playing guitar on the songs "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse". Adams chose the name for Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division
Bell, by picking the words from the lyrics to one of its tracks, "High Hopes". Gilmour also performed at Adams's memorial service in 2001, and
what would have been Adams's 60th birthday party in 2012.
Computer games and projects: Douglas Adams created an interactive fiction version of HHGG with Steve Meretzky from Infocom in 1984. In 1986 he
participated in a week-long brainstorming session with the Lucasfilm Games team for the game Labyrinth. Later he was also involved in creating
Bureaucracy as a parody of events in his own life. Adams was a founder-director and Chief Fantasist of The Digital Village, a digital media and
Internet company with which he created Starship Titanic, a Codie Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated adventure game, which was published in 1998 by
Simon & Schuster. Terry Jones wrote the accompanying book, entitled Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, since Adams was too busy with the computer
game to do both. In April 1999, Adams initiated the H2G2 collaborative writing project, an experimental attempt at making The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy a reality, and at harnessing the collective brainpower of the internet community. It was hosted by BBC Online from 2001 to 2011. In
1990, Adams wrote and presented a television documentary programme Hyperland which featured Tom Baker as a "software agent" (similar to the
assistant pictured in Apple's Knowledge Navigator video of future concepts from 1987), and interviews with Ted Nelson, the co-inventor of
hypertext and the person who coined the term. Adams was an early adopter and advocate of hypertext.
Personal beliefs and activism: Atheism and views on religion: Adams described himself as a "radical atheist", adding "radical" for emphasis so he
would not be asked if he meant agnostic. He told American Atheists that this conveyed the fact that he really meant it. He imagined a sentient
puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in – an interesting hole I find myself in – fits me rather
neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate his view that the fine-tuned
Universe argument for God was a fallacy. He remained fascinated by religion because of its effect on human affairs. "I love to keep poking and
prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing." The evolutionary
biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins uses Adams's influence to exemplify arguments for non-belief in his 2006 book The God Delusion. Dawkins
dedicated the book to Adams, whom he jokingly called "possibly [my] only convert" to atheism and wrote on his death that "Science has lost a
friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender."
Environmental activism: Adams was also an environmental activist who campaigned on behalf of endangered species. This activism included the
production of the non-fiction radio series Last Chance to See, in which he and naturalist Mark Carwardine visited rare species such as the kakapo
and baiji, and the publication of a tie-in book of the same name. In 1992 this was made into a CD-ROM combination of audiobook, e-book and picture
slide show. Adams and Mark Carwardine contributed the 'Meeting a Gorilla' passage from Last Chance to See to the book The Great Ape Project. This
book, edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, launched a wider-scale project in 1993, which calls for the extension of moral equality to
include all great apes, human and non-human. In 1994, he participated in a climb of Mount Kilimanjaro while wearing a rhino suit for the British
charity organisation Save the Rhino International. Puppeteer William Todd-Jones, who had originally worn the suit in the London Marathon to raise
money and bring awareness to the group, also participated in the climb wearing a rhino suit; Adams wore the suit while travelling to the mountain
before the climb began. About £100,000 was raised through that event, benefiting schools in Kenya and a black rhinoceros preservation programme in
Tanzania. Adams was also an active supporter of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Since 2003, Save the Rhino has held an annual Douglas Adams Memorial
Lecture around the time of his birthday to raise money for environmental campaigns.
Technology and innovation: Adams bought his first word processor in 1982, having considered one as early as 1979. His first purchase was a Nexu.
In 1983, when he and Jane Belson went to Los Angeles, he bought a DEC Rainbow. Upon their return to England, Adams bought an Apricot, then a BBC
Micro and a Tandy 1000. In Last Chance to See Adams mentions his Cambridge Z88, which he had taken to Zaire on a quest to find the northern white
rhinoceros. Adams's posthumously published work, The Salmon of Doubt, features several articles by him on the subject of technology, including
reprints of articles that originally ran in MacUser magazine, and in The Independent on Sunday newspaper. In these Adams claims that one of the
first computers he ever saw was a Commodore PET, and that he had "adored" his Apple Macintosh ("or rather my family of however many Macintoshes it
is that I've recklessly accumulated over the years") since he first saw one at Infocom's offices in Boston in 1984. Adams was a Macintosh user
from the time they first came out in 1984 until his death in 2001. He was the first person to buy a Mac in Europe (the second being Stephen Fry
– though some accounts differ on this, saying Fry bought his Mac first. Fry claims he was second to Adams). Adams was also an "Apple Master",
celebrities whom Apple made into spokespeople for its products (others included John Cleese and Gregory Hines). Adams's contributions included a
rock video that he created using the first version of iMovie with footage featuring his daughter Polly. The video was available on Adams's .Mac
homepage. Adams installed and started using the first release of Mac OS X in the weeks leading up to his death. His very last post to his own
forum was in praise of Mac OS X and the possibilities of its Cocoa programming framework. He said it was "awesome...", which was also the last
word he wrote on his site. Adams used email to correspond with Steve Meretzky in the early 1980s, during their collaboration on Infocom's version
of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. While living in New Mexico in 1993 he set up another e-mail address and began posting to his own USENET
newsgroup, alt.fan.douglas-adams, and occasionally, when his computer was acting up, to the comp.sys.mac hierarchy. Challenges to the authenticity
of his messages later led Adams to set up a message forum on his own website to avoid the issue. In 1996, Adams was a keynote speaker at the
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) where he described the personal computer as being a modelling device. The video of his keynote
speech is archived on Channel 9. Adams was also a keynote speaker for the April 2001 Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, one of the
major technical conferences on embedded system engineering.
Personal life: Adams moved to Upper Street, Islington, in 1981 and to Duncan Terrace, a few minutes' walk away, in the late 1980s. In the early
1980s Adams had an affair with novelist Sally Emerson, who was separated from her husband at that time. Adams later dedicated his book Life, the
Universe and Everything to Emerson. In 1981 Emerson returned to her husband, Peter Stothard, a contemporary of Adams's at Brentwood School, and
later editor of The Times. Adams was soon introduced by friends to Jane Belson, with whom he later became romantically involved. Belson was the
"lady barrister" mentioned in the jacket-flap biography printed in his books during the mid-1980s ("He [Adams] lives in Islington with a lady
barrister and an Apple Macintosh"). The two lived in Los Angeles together during 1983 while Adams worked on an early screenplay adaptation of
Hitchhiker's. When the deal fell through, they moved back to London, and after several separations ("He is currently not certain where he lives,
or with whom") and a broken engagement, they married on 25 November 1991. Adams and Belson had one daughter together, Polly Jane Rocket Adams,
born on 22 June 1994, shortly after Adams turned 42. In 1999 the family moved from London to Santa Barbara, California, where they lived until his
death. Following the funeral, Jane Belson and Polly Adams returned to London. Belson died on 7 September 2011 of cancer, aged 59.
Death and legacy: Adams died of a heart attack on 11 May 2001, aged 49, after resting from his regular workout at a private gym in Montecito,
California. Adams had been due to deliver the commencement address at Harvey Mudd College on 13 May. His funeral was held on 16 May in Santa
Barbara. His ashes were placed in Highgate Cemetery in north London in June 2002. A memorial service was held on 17 September 2001 at
St Martin-in-the-Fields church, Trafalgar Square, London. This became the first church service broadcast live on the web by the BBC. Video clips
of the service are still available on the BBC's website for download. One of his last public appearances was a talk given at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, Parrots, the universe and everything, recorded days before his death. A full transcript of the talk is available, and
the university has made the full video available on YouTube. Two days before Adams died, the Minor Planet Center announced the naming of asteroid
18610 Arthurdent. In 2005, the asteroid 25924 Douglasadams was named in his memory. In May 2002, The Salmon of Doubt was published, containing
many short stories, essays, and letters, as well as eulogies from Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry (in the UK edition), Christopher Cerf (in the US
edition), and Terry Jones (in the US paperback edition). It also includes eleven chapters of his unfinished novel, The Salmon of Doubt, which was
originally intended to become a new Dirk Gently novel, but might have later become the sixth Hitchhiker novel. Other events after Adams's death
included a webcast production of Shada, allowing the complete story to be told, radio dramatisations of the final three books in the Hitchhiker's
series, and the completion of the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The film, released in 2005, posthumously credits Adams
as a producer, and several design elements – including a head-shaped planet seen near the end of the film – incorporated Adams's features. A
12-part radio series based on the Dirk Gently novels was announced in 2007. BBC Radio 4 also commissioned a third Dirk Gently radio series based
on the incomplete chapters of The Salmon of Doubt, and written by Kim Fuller; but this was dropped in favour of a BBC TV series based on the two
completed novels. A sixth Hitchhiker novel, And Another Thing..., by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer, was released on 12 October 2009 (the 30th
anniversary of the first book), published with the support of Adams's estate. A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime adaptation and an audio book soon
followed. On 25 May 2001, two weeks after Adams's death, his fans organised a tribute known as Towel Day, which has been observed every year since
then. In 2011, over 3,000 people took part in a public vote to choose the subjects of People's Plaques in Islington; Adams received 489 votes. On
11 March 2013, Adams's 61st birthday was celebrated with an interactive Google Doodle. In 2018, John Lloyd presented an hour-long episode of the
BBC Radio Four documentary Archive on 4, discussing Adams' private papers, which are held at St John's College, Cambridge. The episode is
available online. A street in São José, Santa Catarina, Brazil is named in Adams' honour.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2 is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.
Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a
1981 TV series, a 1984 video game, and 2005 feature film. A prominent series in British popular culture, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has
become an international multi-media phenomenon; the novels are the most widely distributed, having been translated into more than 30 languages by
2005. In 2017, BBC Radio 4 announced a 40th-anniversary celebration with Dirk Maggs, one of the original producers, in charge. This sixth series
of the sci-fi spoof has been based on Eoin Colfer's book And Another Thing, with additional unpublished material by Douglas Adams. The first of
six new episodes was broadcast on 8 March 2018. The broad narrative of Hitchhiker follows the misadventures of the last surviving man, Arthur
Dent, following the demolition of the planet Earth by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Dent is rescued from Earth's
destruction by Ford Prefect, a human-like alien writer for the eccentric, electronic travel guide The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by
hitchhiking onto a passing Vogon spacecraft. Following his rescue, Dent explores the galaxy with Prefect and encounters Trillian, another human
that had been taken from Earth prior to its destruction by the President of the Galaxy, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, and the depressed
Marvin, the Paranoid Android. Certain narrative details were changed between the various adaptations.
Plot: The various versions follow the same basic plot but they are in many places mutually contradictory, as Adams rewrote the story substantially
for each new adaptation. Throughout all versions, the series follows the adventures of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman, following the
destruction of the Earth by the Vogons, a race of unpleasant and bureaucratic aliens, to make way for an intergalactic bypass. Dent's adventures
intersect with several other characters: Ford Prefect (who named himself after the Ford Prefect car to blend in with what was assumed to be the
dominant life form, automobiles), an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and a researcher for the eponymous
guidebook, who rescues Dent from Earth's destruction; Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford's eccentric semi-cousin and the Galactic President; the depressed
robot Marvin the Paranoid Android; and Trillian, formerly known as Tricia McMillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party in Islington and the only
other human survivor of Earth's destruction thanks to Beeblebrox' intervention.
Background: The first radio series comes from a proposal called "The Ends of the Earth": six self-contained episodes, all ending with Earth's
being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realized that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to
provide some context, and that this alien needed a reason to be there. Adams finally settled on making the alien a roving researcher for a
"wholly remarkable book" named The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As the first radio episode's writing progressed, the Guide became the centre
of his story, and he decided to focus the series on it, with the destruction of Earth being the only hold-over. Adams claimed that the title came
from a 1971 incident while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe book: while lying
drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well. However, he later claimed that he had told this story so many times that he had forgotten the incident
itself, and only remembered himself telling the story. His friends are quoted as saying that Adams mentioned the idea of "hitch-hiking around the
galaxy" to them while on holiday in Greece in 1973. Adams's fictional Guide is an electronic guidebook to the entire universe, originally
published by Megadodo Publications, one of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor Beta. The narrative of the various versions of the story are
frequently punctuated with excerpts from the Guide. The voice of the Guide (Peter Jones in the first two radio series and TV versions, later
William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and Stephen Fry in the movie version), also provides general narration.
Original radio series: The first radio series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "The
Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4. Despite a low-key launch of the series (the first episode was broadcast at 10:30 pm
on Wednesday, 8 March 1978), it received generally good reviews and a tremendous audience reaction for radio. A one-off episode (a "Christmas
special") was broadcast later in the year. The BBC had a practice at the time of commissioning "Christmas Special" episodes for popular radio
series, and while an early draft of this episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide had a Christmas-related plotline, it was decided to be "in slightly
poor taste" and the episode as transmitted served as a bridge between the two series. This episode was released as part of the second radio series
and, later, The Secondary Phase on cassettes and CDs. The Primary and Secondary Phases were aired, in a slightly edited version, in the United
States on NPR Playhouse. The first series was repeated twice in 1978 alone and many more times in the next few years. This led to an LP
re-recording, produced independently of the BBC for sale, and a further adaptation of the series as a book. A second radio series, which consisted
of a further six episodes, and bringing the total number of episodes to 12, was broadcast in 1980. The radio series (and the LP and TV versions)
greatly benefited from the narration of noted comedy actor Peter Jones as The Book. He was cast after it was decided that a "Peter Jonesy" sort of
voice was required. This led to a three-month search for an actor who sounded exactly like Peter Jones, which was unsuccessful. The producers then
hired Peter Jones as exactly the "Peter Jonesy" voice they were looking for. The series was also notable for its use of sound, being the first
comedy series to be produced in stereo. Adams said that he wanted the programme's production to be comparable to that of a modern rock album. Much
of the programme's budget was spent on sound effects, which were largely the work of Paddy Kingsland (for the pilot episode and the complete
second series) at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Dick Mills and Harry Parker (for the remaining episodes (2–6) of the first series). The fact
that they were at the forefront of modern radio production in 1978 and 1980 was reflected when the three new series of Hitchhiker's became some of
the first radio shows to be mixed into four-channel Dolby Surround. This mix was also featured on DVD releases of the third radio series. The
theme tune used for the radio, television, LP and film versions is "Journey of the Sorcerer", an instrumental piece composed by Bernie Leadon and
recorded by The Eagles on their album One of These Nights. Only the transmitted radio series used the original recording; a sound-alike cover by
Tim Souster was used for the LP and TV series, another arrangement by Joby Talbot was used for the 2005 film, and still another arrangement, this
time by Philip Pope, was recorded to be released with the CDs of the last three radio series. Apparently, Adams chose this song for its
futuristic-sounding nature, but also for the fact that it had a banjo in it, which, as Geoffrey Perkins recalls, Adams said would give an "on the
road, hitch-hiking feel" to it. The twelve episodes were released (in a slightly edited form, removing the Pink Floyd music and two other tunes
"hummed" by Marvin when the team land on Magrathea) on CD and cassette in 1988, becoming the first CD release in the BBC Radio Collection. They
were re-released in 1992, and at this time Adams suggested that they could retitle Fits the First to Sixth as "The Primary Phase" and Fits the
Seventh to Twelfth as "The Secondary Phase" instead of just "the first series" and "the second series". It was at about this time that a "Tertiary
Phase" was first discussed with Dirk Maggs, adapting Life, the Universe and Everything, but this series would not be recorded for another ten
years. Main cast:
Simon Jones as Arthur Dent
Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect
Susan Sheridan as Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore as Marvin, the Paranoid Android
Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast
Peter Jones as The Book
Novels: The novels are described as "a trilogy in five parts", having been described as a trilogy on the release of the third book, and then a
"trilogy in four parts" on the release of the fourth book. The US edition of the fifth book was originally released with the legend "The fifth
book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy" on the cover. Subsequent re-releases of the other novels bore the legend "The
[first, second, third, fourth] book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy". In addition, the blurb on the fifth book
describes it as "the book that gives a whole new meaning to the word 'trilogy'". The plots of the television and radio series are more or less the
same as that of the first two novels, though some of the events occur in a different order and many of the details are changed. Much of parts five
and six of the radio series were written by John Lloyd, but his material did not make it into the other versions of the story and is not included
here. Many consider the books' version of events to be definitive because they are the most readily accessible and widely distributed version of
the story. However, they are not the final version that Adams produced. Before his death from a heart attack on 11 May 2001, Adams was considering
writing a sixth novel in the Hitchhiker's series. He was working on a third Dirk Gently novel, under the working title The Salmon of Doubt, but
felt that the book was not working and abandoned it. In an interview, he said some of the ideas in the book might fit better in the Hitchhiker's
series, and suggested he might rework those ideas into a sixth book in that series. He described Mostly Harmless as "a very bleak book" and said
he "would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note". Adams also remarked that if he were to write a sixth instalment, he would at
least start with all the characters in the same place. Eoin Colfer, who wrote the sixth book in the Hitchhiker's series in 2008–09, used this
latter concept but none of the plot ideas from The Salmon of Doubt.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet
Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the
fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer
named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed to be 42,
Deep Thought explained that the answer was incomprehensible because the beings didn't know what they were asking. It went on to predict that
another computer, more powerful than itself would be made and designed by it to calculate the question for the answer. (Later on, referencing
this, Adams would create the 42 Puzzle, a puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.) The computer, often
mistaken for a planet (because of its size and use of biological components), was the Earth, and was destroyed by Vogons to make way for a
hyperspatial express route five minutes before the conclusion of its 10-million-year program. Two members of the race of hyper-intelligent
pan-dimensional beings who commissioned the Earth in the first place disguise themselves as Trillian's mice, and want to dissect Arthur's brain to
help reconstruct the question, since he was part of the Earth's matrix moments before it was destroyed, and so he is likely to have part of the
question buried in his brain. Trillian is also human but had left Earth six months previously with Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy. The
protagonists escape, setting the course for "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". The mice, in Arthur's absence, create a phony question
since it is too troublesome for them to wait 10 million years again just to cash in on a lucrative deal. The book was adapted from the first four
radio episodes. It was first published in 1979, initially in paperback, by Pan Books, after BBC Publishing had turned down the offer of publishing
a novelization, an action they would later regret. The book reached number one on the book charts in only its second week, and sold over 250,000
copies within three months of its release. A hardback edition was published by Harmony Books, a division of Random House in the United States in
October 1980, and the 1981 US paperback edition was promoted by the give-away of 3,000 free copies in the magazine Rolling Stone to build word of
mouth. In 2005, Del Rey Books rereleased the Hitchhiker series with new covers for the release of the 2005 movie. To date, it has sold over 14
million copies. A photo-illustrated edition of the first novel appeared in 1994.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (published in 1980), Zaphod is separated from the others
and finds he is part of a conspiracy to uncover who really runs the Universe. Zaphod meets Zarniwoop, a conspirator and editor for The Guide, who
knows where to find the secret ruler. Zaphod becomes briefly reunited with the others for a trip to Milliways, the restaurant of the title. Zaphod
and Ford decide to steal a ship from there, which turns out to be a stunt ship pre-programmed to plunge into a star as a special effect in a stage
show. Unable to change course, the main characters get Marvin to run the teleporter they find in the ship, which is working other than having no
automatic control (someone must remain behind to operate it), and Marvin seemingly sacrifices himself. Zaphod and Trillian discover that the
Universe is in the safe hands of a simple man living on a remote planet in a wooden shack with his cat. Ford and Arthur, meanwhile, end up on a
spacecraft full of the outcasts of the Golgafrinchan civilization. The ship crashes on prehistoric Earth; Ford and Arthur are stranded, and it
becomes clear that the inept Golgafrinchans are the ancestors of modern humans, having displaced the Earth's indigenous hominids. This has
disrupted the Earth's programming so that when Ford and Arthur manage to extract the final readout from Arthur's subconscious mind by pulling
lettered tiles from a Scrabble set, it is "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" Arthur then comments, "I've always said there was
something fundamentally wrong with the universe." The book was adapted from the remaining material in the radio series—covering from the fifth
episode to the twelfth episode, although the ordering was greatly changed (in particular, the events of Fit the Sixth, with Ford and Arthur being
stranded on pre-historic Earth, end the book, and their rescue in Fit the Seventh is deleted), and most of the Brontitall incident was omitted,
instead of the Haggunenon sequence, co-written by John Loyd, the Disaster Area stunt ship was substituted—this having first been introduced in the
LP version. Adams himself considered Restaurant to be his best novel of the five.
Life, the Universe and Everything: In Life, the Universe and Everything (published in 1982), Ford and Arthur travel through the space-time
continuum from prehistoric Earth to Lord's Cricket Ground. There they run into Slartibartfast, who enlists their aid in preventing galactic war.
Long ago, the people of Krikkit attempted to wipe out all life in the Universe, but they were stopped and imprisoned on their home planet; now
they are poised to escape. With the help of Marvin, Zaphod, and Trillian, our heroes prevent the destruction of life in the Universe and go their
separate ways. This was the first Hitchhiker's book originally written as a book and not adapted from radio. Its story was based on a treatment
Adams had written for a Doctor Who theatrical release, with the Doctor role being split between Slartibartfast (to begin with), and later Trillian
and Arthur. In 2004 it was adapted for radio as the Tertiary Phase of the radio series.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (published in 1984), Arthur returns home to Earth, rather
surprisingly since it was destroyed when he left. He meets and falls in love with a girl named Fenchurch, and discovers this Earth is a
replacement provided by the dolphins in their Save the Humans campaign. Eventually, he rejoins Ford, who claims to have saved the Universe in the
meantime, to hitch-hike one last time and see God's Final Message to His Creation. Along the way, they are joined by Marvin, the Paranoid Android,
who, although 37 times older than the universe itself (what with time travel and all), has just enough power left in his failing body to read the
message and feel better about it all before expiring. This was the first Hitchhiker's novel which was not an adaptation of any previously written
story or script. In 2005 it was adapted for radio as the Quandary Phase of the radio series.
Mostly Harmless: Finally, in Mostly Harmless (published in 1992), Vogons take over The Hitchhiker's Guide (under the name of InfiniDim
Enterprises), to finish, once and for all, the task of obliterating the Earth. After abruptly losing Fenchurch and traveling around the galaxy
despondently, Arthur's spaceship crashes on the planet Lamuella, where he settles in happily as the official sandwich-maker for a small village of
simple, peaceful people. Meanwhile, Ford Prefect breaks into The Guide's offices, gets himself an infinite expense account from the computer
system, and then meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Mark II, an artificially intelligent, multi-dimensional guide with vast power and a
hidden purpose. After he declines this dangerously powerful machine's aid (which he receives anyway), he sends it to Arthur Dent for safety ("Oh
yes, whose?"—Arthur). Trillian uses DNA that Arthur donated for traveling money to have a daughter, and when she goes to cover a war, she leaves
her daughter Random Frequent Flyer Dent with Arthur. Random, a more than typically troubled teenager, steals The Guide Mark II and uses it to get
to Earth. Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Tricia McMillan (Trillian in this alternate universe) follow her to a crowded club, where an anguished
Random becomes startled by a noise and inadvertently fires her gun at Arthur. The shot misses Arthur and kills a man (the ever-unfortunate
Agrajag). Immediately afterwards, The Guide Mark II causes the removal of all possible Earths from probability. All of the main characters, save
Zaphod, were on Earth at the time and are apparently killed, bringing a good deal of satisfaction to the Vogons. In 2005 it was adapted for radio
as the Quintessential Phase of the radio series, with the final episode first transmitted on 21 June 2005.
And Another Thing...: It was announced in September 2008 that Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, had been commissioned to write the sixth
instalment entitled And Another Thing... with the support of Jane Belson, Adams's widow. The book was published by Penguin Books in the UK and
Hyperion in the US in October 2009. The story begins as death rays bear down on Earth, and the characters awaken from a virtual reality. Zaphod
picks them up shortly before they are killed, but completely fails to escape the death beams. They are then saved by Bowerick Wowbagger, the
Infinitely Prolonged, whom they agree to help kill. Zaphod travels to Asgard to get Thor's help. In the meantime, the Vogons are heading to
destroy a colony of people who also escaped Earth's destruction, on the planet Nano. Arthur, Wowbagger, Trillian and Random head to Nano to try to
stop the Vogons, and on the journey, Wowbagger and Trillian fall in love, making Wowbagger question whether or not he wants to be killed.
Zaphod arrives with Thor, who then signs up to be the planet's God. With Random's help, Thor almost kills Wowbagger. Wowbagger, who merely loses
his immortality, then marries Trillian. Thor then stops the first Vogon attack and apparently dies. Meanwhile, Constant Mown, son of Prostetnic
Jeltz, convinces his father that the people on the planet are not citizens of Earth, but are, in fact, citizens of Nano, which means that it would
be illegal to kill them. As the book draws to a close, Arthur is on his way to check out a possible university for Random, when, during a
hyperspace jump, he is flung across alternate universes, has a brief encounter with Fenchurch, and ends up exactly where he would want to be.
And then the Vogons turn up again. In 2017 it was adapted for radio as the Hexagonal Phase of the radio series, with its premiere episode first
transmitted on 8 March 2018, (exactly forty years, to the day, from the first episode of the first series, the Primary Phase).
Omnibus editions: Two omnibus editions were created by Douglas Adams to combine the Hitchhiker series novels and to "set the record straight". The
stories came in so many different formats that Adams stated that every time he told it he would contradict himself. Therefore, he stated in the
introduction of The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide that "anything I put down wrong here is, as far as I'm concerned, wrong for good." The
two omnibus editions were The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, Complete and Unabridged (published in 1987) and The Ultimate Hitchhiker's
Guide, Complete and Unabridged (published in 1997).
The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide: Published in 1987, this 624-page leatherbound omnibus edition contains "wrong for good" versions of the
four Hitchhiker series novels at the time, and also includes one short story:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
"Young Zaphod Plays it Safe"
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Published in 1997, this 832-page leatherbound final omnibus edition contains five Hitchhiker series novels and
one short story:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
"Young Zaphod Plays it Safe"
Also appearing in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, at the end of Adams's introduction, is a list of instructions on "How to Leave the Planet",
providing a humorous explanation of how one might replicate Arthur and Ford's feat at the beginning of Hitchhiker's.
Other Hitchhiker's-related books and stories:
Related stories:
A short story by Adams, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe", first appeared in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, a special
large-print compilation of different stories and pictures that raised money for the then-new Comic Relief charity in the UK. The story
also appears in some of the omnibus editions of the trilogy, and in The Salmon of Doubt. There are two versions of this story, one of
which is slightly more explicit in its political commentary.
A novel, Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel, written by Terry Jones, is based on Adams's computer game of the same name, Douglas
Adams's Starship Titanic, which in turn is based on an idea from Life, the Universe and Everything. The idea concerns a luxury passenger
starship that suffers "sudden and gratuitous total existence failure" on its maiden voyage.
Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, a character from Life, the Universe and Everything, also appears in a short story by Adams titled "The
Private Life of Genghis Khan" which appears in some early editions of The Salmon of Doubt.
Published radio scripts: Douglas Adams and Geoffrey Perkins collaborated on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts,
first published in the United Kingdom and United States in 1985. A tenth-anniversary (of the script book publication) edition was printed in 1995,
and a twenty-fifth-anniversary (of the first radio series broadcast) edition was printed in 2003. The 2004 series was produced by Above The Title
Productions and the scripts were published in July 2005, with production notes for each episode. This second radio script book is entitled The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases. Douglas Adams gets the primary writer's credit
(as he wrote the original novels), and there is a foreword by Simon Jones, introductions by the producer and the director, and other introductory
notes from other members of the cast.
Television series: The popularity of the radio series gave rise to a six-episode television series, directed and produced by Alan J. W. Bell,
which first aired on BBC 2 in January and February 1981. It employed many of the actors from the radio series and was based mainly on the radio
versions of Fits the First to Sixth. A second series was at one point planned, with a storyline, according to Alan Bell and Mark Wing-Davey that
would have come from Adams's abandoned Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen project (instead of simply making a TV version of the second radio series).
However, Adams got into disputes with the BBC (accounts differ: problems with budget, scripts, and having Alan Bell involved are all offered as
causes), and the second series was never made. Elements of Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen were instead used in the third novel, Life, the Universe
and Everything. The main cast was the same as the original radio series, except for David Dixon as Ford Prefect instead of McGivern, and Sandra
Dickinson as Trillian instead of Sheridan.
Other television appearances: Segments of several of the books were adapted as part of the BBC's The Big Read survey and programme, broadcast in
late 2003. The film, directed by Deep Sehgal, starred Sanjeev Bhaskar as Arthur Dent, alongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the
voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd-Pack as Slartibartfast, and
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish as Loonquawl and Phouchg.
Radio series three to five: On 21 June 2004, the BBC announced in a press release that a new series of Hitchhiker's based on the third novel would
be broadcast as part of its autumn schedule, produced by Above the Title Productions Ltd. The episodes were recorded in late 2003, but actual
transmission was delayed while an agreement was reached with The Walt Disney Company over Internet re-broadcasts, as Disney had begun
pre-production on the film. This was followed by news that further series would be produced based on the fourth and fifth novels. These were
broadcast in September and October 2004 and May and June 2005. CD releases accompanied the transmission of the final episode in each series. The
adaptation of the third novel followed the book very closely, which caused major structural issues in meshing with the preceding radio series in
comparison to the second novel. Because many events from the radio series were omitted from the second novel, and those that did occur happened in
a different order, the two series split in completely different directions. The last two adaptations vary somewhat—some events in Mostly Harmless
are now foreshadowed in the adaptation of So Long and Thanks For All The Fish, while both include some additional material that builds on
incidents in the third series to tie all five (and their divergent plotlines) together, most especially including the character Zaphod more
prominently in the final chapters and addressing his altered reality to include the events of the Secondary Phase. While Mostly Harmless
originally contained a rather bleak ending, Dirk Maggs created a different ending for the transmitted radio version, ending it on a much more
upbeat note, reuniting the cast one last time. The core cast for the third to fifth radio series remained the same, except for the replacement of
Peter Jones by William Franklyn as the Book, and Richard Vernon by Richard Griffiths as Slartibartfast, since both had died. (Homage to Jones'
iconic portrayal of the Book was paid twice: the gradual shift of voices to a "new" version in episode 13, launching the new productions, and a
blend of Jones and Franklyn's voices at the end of the final episode, the first part of Maggs' alternative ending.) Sandra Dickinson, who played
Trillian in the TV series, here played Tricia McMillan, an English-born, American-accented alternate-universe version of Trillian, while David
Dixon, the television series' Ford Prefect, made a cameo appearance as the "Ecological Man". Jane Horrocks appeared in the new semi-regular role
of Fenchurch, Arthur's girlfriend, and Samantha Béart joined in the final series as Arthur and Trillian's daughter, Random Dent. Also reprising
their roles from the original radio series were Jonathan Pryce as Zarniwoop (here blended with a character from the final novel to become
Zarniwoop Vann Harl), Rula Lenska as Lintilla and her clones (and also as the Voice of the Bird), and Roy Hudd as Milliways compere Max
Quordlepleen, as well as the original radio series' announcer, John Marsh. The series also featured guest appearances by such noted personalities
as Joanna Lumley as the Sydney Opera House Woman, Jackie Mason as the East River Creature, Miriam Margolyes as the Smelly Photocopier Woman, BBC
Radio cricket legends Henry Blofeld and Fred Trueman as themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey
as the Man on the Pole, Sir Patrick Moore as himself, and Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane. Finally, Adams himself played the role of Agrajag, a
performance adapted from his book-on-tape reading of the third novel, and edited into the series created some time after the author's death.
Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phase Main cast:
Simon Jones as Arthur Dent
Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect
Susan Sheridan as Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore as Marvin, the Paranoid Android
Richard Griffiths as Slartibartfast
Sandra Dickinson as Tricia McMillan
Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch
Rula Lenska as the Voice of the Bird
Samantha Béart as Random
William Franklyn as The Book
Radio series six: The first of six episodes in a sixth series, the Hexagonal Phase, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 March 2018 and featured
Professor Stephen Hawking introducing himself as the voice of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Mk II by saying: "I have been quite popular
in my time. Some even read my books."
Film: After several years of setbacks and renewed efforts to start production and a quarter of a century after the first book was published, the
big-screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was finally shot. Pre-production began in 2003, filming began on 19 April 2004 and
post-production began in early September 2004. After a London premiere on 20 April 2005, it was released on 28 April in the UK and Australia, 29
April in the United States and Canada, and 29 July in South Africa. (A full list of release dates is available at the IMDb.) The movie stars
Martin Freeman as Arthur, Mos Def as Ford, Sam Rockwell as President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox and Zooey Deschanel as Trillian, with Alan
Rickman providing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android (and Warwick Davis acting in Marvin's costume), and Stephen Fry as the voice of the
Guide/Narrator. The plot of the film adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide differs widely from that of the radio show, book and television series. The
romantic triangle between Arthur, Zaphod, and Trillian is more prominent in the film; and visits to Vogsphere, the homeworld of the Vogons (which,
in the books, was already abandoned), and Viltvodle VI are inserted. The film covers roughly events in the first four radio episodes, and ends
with the characters en route to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, leaving the opportunity for a sequel open. A unique appearance is made
by the Point-of-View Gun, a device specifically created by Adams himself for the movie. Commercially the film was a modest success, taking $21
million in its opening weekend in the United States, and nearly £3.3 million in its opening weekend in the United Kingdom. The film was released
on DVD (Region 2, PAL) in the UK on 5 September 2005. Both a standard double-disc edition and a UK-exclusive numbered limited edition "Giftpack"
were released on this date. The "Giftpack" edition includes a copy of the novel with a "movie tie-in" cover, and collectible prints from the film,
packaged in a replica of the film's version of the Hitchhiker's Guide prop. A single-disc widescreen or full-screen edition (Region 1, NTSC) were
made available in the United States and Canada on 13 September 2005. Single-disc releases in the Blu-ray format and UMD format for the PlayStation
Portable were also released on the respective dates in these three countries.
Stage shows: There have been multiple professional and amateur stage adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There were three early
professional productions, which were staged in 1979 and 1980. The first of these was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London,
between 1 and 19 May 1979, starring Chris Langham as Arthur Dent (Langham later returned to Hitchhiker's as Prak in the final episode of 2004's
Tertiary Phase) and Richard Hope as Ford Prefect. This show was adapted from the first series' scripts and was directed by Ken Campbell, who went
on to perform a character in the final episode of the second radio series. The show ran 90 minutes, but had an audience limited to eighty people
per night. Actors performed on a variety of ledges and platforms, and the audience was pushed around in a hovercar, 1/2000th of an inch above the
floor. This was the first time that Zaphod was represented by having two actors in one large costume. The narration of "The Book" was split
between two usherettes, an adaptation that has appeared in no other version of H2G2. One of these usherettes, Cindy Oswin, went on to voice
Trillian for the LP adaptation. The second stage show was performed throughout Wales between 15 January and 23 February 1980. This was a
production of Clwyd Theatr Cymru, and was directed by Jonathan Petherbridge. The company performed adaptations of complete radio episodes, at
times doing two episodes in a night, and at other times doing all six episodes of the first series in single three-hour sessions. This adaptation
was performed again at the Oxford Playhouse in December 1981, the Bristol Hippodrome, Plymouth's Theatre Royal in May–June 1982, and also at the
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in July 1983. The third and least successful stage show was held at the Rainbow Theatre in London, in July 1980. This
was the second production directed by Ken Campbell. The Rainbow Theatre had been adapted for stagings of rock operas in the 1970s, and both
reference books mentioned in footnotes indicate that this, coupled with incidental music throughout the performance, caused some reviewers to
label it as a "musical". This was the first adaptation for which Adams wrote the "Dish of the Day" sequence. The production ran for over three
hours, and was widely panned for this, as well as for the music, laser effects, and the acting. Despite attempts to shorten the script, and make
other changes, it closed three or four weeks early (accounts differ), and lost a lot of money. Despite the bad reviews, there were at least two
stand-out performances: Michael Cule and David Learner both went on from this production to appearances in the TV adaptation. In December 2011 a
new stage production was announced to begin touring in June 2012. This included members of the original radio and TV casts such as Simon Jones,
Geoff McGivern, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davey and Stephen Moore with VIP guests playing the role of the Book. It was produced in the form of a
radio show which could be downloaded when the tour was completed. This production was based on the first four Fits in the first act, with the
second act covering material from the rest of the series. The show also featured a band, who performed the songs "Share and Enjoy", the Krikkit
song "Under the Ink Black Sky", Marvin's song "How I Hate The Night", and "Marvin", which was a minor hit in 1981. The production featured a
series of "VIP guests" as the voice of The Book including Billy Boyd, Phill Jupitus, Rory McGrath, Roger McGough, Jon Culshaw, Christopher
Timothy, Andrew Sachs, John Challis, Hugh Dennis, John Lloyd, Terry Jones and Neil Gaiman. The tour started on 8 June 2012 at the Theatre Royal,
Glasgow and continued through the summer until 21 July when the final performance was at Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh. The production started
touring again in September 2013, but the remaining dates of the tour were cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
Live radio adaptation: On Saturday 29 March 2014, Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation in front of a live audience, featuring many members of the
original cast including Stephen Moore, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davey, Simon Jones and Geoff McGivern, with John Lloyd as the book. The
adaptation was adapted by Dirk Maggs primarily from Fit the First, including material from the books and later radio Fits as well as some new
jokes. It formed part of Radio 4's Character Invasion series.
LP album adaptations: The first four radio episodes were adapted for a new double LP, also entitled The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (appended
with "Part One" for the subsequent Canadian release), first by mail-order only, and later into stores. The double LP and its sequel were
originally released by Original Records in the United Kingdom in 1979 and 1980, with the catalogue numbers ORA042 and ORA054 respectively. They
were first released by Hannibal Records in 1982 (as HNBL 2301 and HNBL 1307, respectively) in the United States and Canada, and later re-released
in a slightly abridged edition by Simon & Schuster's Audioworks in the mid-1980s. Both were produced by Geoffrey Perkins and featured cover
artwork by Hipgnosis. The script in the first double LP very closely follows the first four radio episodes, although further cuts had to be made
for reasons of timing. Despite this, other lines of dialogue that were indicated as having been cut when the original scripts from the radio
series were eventually published can be heard in the LP version. The Simon & Schuster cassettes omit the Veet Voojagig narration, the
cheerleader's speech as Deep Thought concludes its seven-and-one-half-million-year programme, and a few other lines from both sides of the second
LP of the set. Most of the original cast returned, except for Susan Sheridan, who was recording a voice for the character of Princess Eilonwy in
The Black Cauldron for Walt Disney Pictures. Cindy Oswin voiced Trillian on all three LPs in her place. Other casting changes in the first double
LP included Stephen Moore taking on the additional role of the barman, and Valentine Dyall as the voice of Deep Thought. Adams's voice can be
heard making the public address announcements on Magrathea. Because of copyright issues, the music used during the first radio series was either
replaced, or in the case of the title it was re-recorded in a new arrangement. Composer Tim Souster did both duties (with Paddy Kingsland
contributing music as well), and Souster's version of the theme was the version also used for the eventual television series. The sequel LP was
released, singly, as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Two: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the UK, and simply as The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the USA. The script here mostly follows Fit the Fifth and Fit the Sixth, but includes a song by the
backup band in the restaurant ("Reg Nullify and his Cataclysmic Combo"), and changes the Haggunenon sequence to "Disaster Area". As the result of
a misunderstanding, the second record was released before being cut down in a final edit that Douglas Adams and Geoffrey Perkins had both intended
to make. Perkins has said, "[I]t is far too long on each side. It's just a rough cut. [...] I felt it was flabby, and I wanted to speed it up."
The Simon & Schuster Audioworks re-release of this LP was also abridged slightly from its original release. The scene with Ford Prefect and
Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard is omitted. Sales for the first double-LP release were primarily through mail order. Total sales reached over 60,000
units, with half of those being mail order, and the other half through retail outlets. This is in spite of the facts that Original Records'
warehouse ordered and stocked more copies than they were actually selling for quite some time, and that Paul Neil Milne Johnstone complained about
his name and then-current address being included in the recording. This was corrected for a later pressing of the double-LP by "cut[ting] up that
part of the master tape and reassembl[ing] it in the wrong order". The second LP release ("Part Two") also only sold a total of 60,000 units in
the UK. The distribution deals for the United States and Canada with Hannibal Records and Simon and Schuster were later negotiated by Douglas
Adams and his agent, Ed Victor, after gaining full rights to the recordings from Original Records, which went bankrupt.
Audiobook adaptations: There have been three audiobook recordings of the novel. The first was an abridged edition (ISBN 0-671-62964-6), recorded
in the mid-1980s for the EMI label Music For Pleasure by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the
radio series and in the TV series. In 1990, Adams himself recorded an unabridged edition for Dove Audiobooks (ISBN 1-55800-273-1), later
re-released by New Millennium Audio (ISBN 1-59007-257-X) in the United States and available from BBC Audiobooks in the United Kingdom. Also by
arrangement with Dove, ISIS Publishing Ltd produced a numbered exclusive edition signed by Douglas Adams (ISBN 1-85695-028-X) in 1994. To tie-in
with the 2005 film, actor Stephen Fry, the film's voice of the Guide, recorded a second unabridged edition (ISBN 0-7393-2220-6). In addition,
unabridged versions of books 2-5 of the series were recorded by Martin Freeman for Random House Audio. Freeman plays Arthur in the 2005 film
adaptation. Audiobooks 2-5 follow in order and include: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (ISBN 9780739332085); Life, the Universe, and
Everything (ISBN 9780739332108); So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (ISBN 9780739332122); and Mostly Harmless (ISBN 9780739332146).
Interactive fiction and video games: Sometime between 1982 and 1984 (accounts differ), the British company Supersoft published a text-based
adventure game based on the book, which was released in versions for the Commodore PET and Commodore 64. One account states that there was a
dispute as to whether valid permission for publication had been granted, and following legal action the game was withdrawn and all remaining
copies were destroyed. Another account states that the programmer, Bob Chappell, rewrote the game to remove all Hitchhiker's references, and
republished it as "Cosmic Capers". Officially, the TV series was followed in 1984 by a best-selling "interactive fiction", or text-based adventure
game, distributed by Infocom. It was designed by Adams and Infocom regular Steve Meretzky and was one of Infocom's most successful games. As with
many Infocom games, the box contained a number of "feelies" including a "Don't panic" badge, some "pocket fluff", a pair of peril-sensitive
sunglasses (made of cardboard), an order for the destruction of the Earth, a small, clear plastic bag containing "a microscopic battle fleet" and
an order for the destruction of Arthur Dent's house (signed by Adams and Meretzky). In September 2004, it was revived by the BBC on the
Hitchhiker's section of the Radio 4 website for the initial broadcast of the Tertiary Phase, and is still available to play online. This new
version uses an original Infocom datafile with a custom-written interpreter, by Sean Sollé, and Flash programming by Shimon Young, both of whom
used to work at The Digital Village (TDV). The new version includes illustrations by Rod Lord, who was head of Pearce Animation Studios in 1980,
which produced the guide graphics for the TV series. On 2 March 2005 it won the Interactive BAFTA in the "best online entertainment" category. A
sequel to the original Infocom game was never made. An all-new, fully graphical game was designed and developed by a joint venture between The
Digital Village and PAN Interactive (no connection to Pan Books / Pan Mcmillan). This new game was planned and developed between 1998 and 2002,
but like the sequel to the Infocom game, it also never materialised. In April 2005, Starwave Mobile released two mobile games to accompany the
release of the film adaptation. The first, developed by Atatio, was called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Vogon Planet Destructor". 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". Despite its name, the newly designed puzzles by TKO
Software's Ireland studio were different from the Infocom ones, and the game followed the movie's script closely and included the new characters
and places. The "Adventure Game" won the IGN's "Editors' Choice Award" in May 2005. On 25 May 2011, Hothead Games announced they were working on a
new edition of The Guide. Along with the announcement, Hothead Games launched a teaser web site made to look like an announcement from Megadodo
Publications that The Guide will soon be available on Earth. It has since been revealed that they are developing an iOS app in the style of the
fictional Guide.
Comic books: In 1993, DC Comics, in conjunction with Byron Preiss Visual Publications, published a three-part comic book adaptation of the
novelisation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This was followed up with three-part adaptations of The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe in 1994, and Life, the Universe and Everything in 1996. There was also a series of collectors' cards with art from and inspired by the
comic adaptations of the first book, and a graphic novelisation (or "collected edition") combining the three individual comic books from 1993,
itself released in May 1997. Douglas Adams was deeply opposed to the use of American English spellings and idioms in what he felt was a very
British story, and had to be talked into it by the American publishers, although he remained very unhappy with the compromise. The adaptations
were scripted by John Carnell. Steve Leialoha provided the art for Hitchhiker's and the layouts for Restaurant. Shepherd Hendrix did the finished
art for Restaurant. Neil Vokes and John Nyberg did the finished artwork for Life, based on breakdowns by Paris Cullins (Book 1) and Christopher
Schenck (Books 2–3). The miniseries were edited by Howard Zimmerman and Ken Grobe.
"Hitch-Hikeriana": Many merchandising and spin-off items (or "Hitch-Hikeriana") were produced in the early 1980s, including towels in different
colours, all bearing the Guide entry for towels. Later runs of towels include those made for promotions by Pan Books, Touchstone Pictures / Disney
for the 2005 movie, and different towels made for ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Hitchhiker's Appreciation society. Other items that first
appeared in the mid-1980s were T-shirts, including those made for Infocom (such as one bearing the legend "I got the Babel Fish" for successfully
completing one of that game's most difficult puzzles), and a Disaster Area tour T-shirt. Other official items have included "Beeblebears" (teddy
bears with an extra head and arm, named after Hitchhiker's character Zaphod Beeblebrox, sold by the official Appreciation Society), an assortment
of pin-on buttons and a number of novelty singles. Many of the above items are displayed throughout the 2004 "25th Anniversary Illustrated
Edition" of the novel, which used items from the personal collections of fans of the series. Stephen Moore recorded two novelty singles in
character as Marvin, the Paranoid Android: "Marvin"/"Metal Man" and "Reasons To Be Miserable"/"Marvin I Love You". The last song has appeared on a
Dr. Demento compilation. Another single featured the re-recorded "Journey of the Sorcerer" (arranged by Tim Souster) backed with "Reg Nullify In
Concert" by Reg Nullify, and "Only the End of the World Again" by Disaster Area (including Douglas Adams on bass guitar). These discs have since
become collector's items. The 2005 movie also added quite a few collectibles, mostly through the National Entertainment Collectibles Association.
These included three prop replicas of objects seen on the Vogon ship and homeworld (a mug, a pen and a stapler), sets of "action figures" with a
height of either 3 or 6 inches (76 or 150 mm), a gun—based on a prop used by Marvin, the Paranoid Android, that shoots foam darts, a crystal cube,
shot glasses, a ten-inch (254 mm) high version of Marvin with eyes that light up green, and "yarn doll" versions of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect,
Trillian, Marvin and Zaphod Beeblebrox. Also, various audio tracks were released to coincide with the movie, notably re-recordings of "Marvin" and
"Reasons To Be Miserable", sung by Stephen Fry, along with some of the "Guide Entries", newly written material read in-character by Fry. SpaceX
CEO Elon Musk launched his Tesla Roadster into an elliptical heliocentric orbit as part of the initial test launch of the Falcon Heavy. On the
car's dashboard, the phrase "Don't Panic!" appears, as a nod to the Hitchhiker's Guide.
International phenomenon: Many science fiction fans and radio listeners outside the United Kingdom were first exposed to The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy in one of two ways: shortwave radio broadcasts of the original radio series, or by Douglas Adams being "Guest of Honour" at the 1979
World Science Fiction Convention, Seacon, held in Brighton, England. It was there that the radio series was nominated for a Hugo Award (the first
radio series to receive a nomination) but lost to Superman. A convention exclusively for H2G2, Hitchercon I, was held in Glasgow, Scotland, in
September 1980, the year that the official fan club, ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, was organised. In the early 1980s, versions of H2G2 became available in
the United States, Canada, Germany (Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis), Denmark (Håndbog for vakse galakseblaffere), the Netherlands (Transgalactisch
Liftershandboek), Sweden (Liftarens guide till galaxen), Finland (Linnunradan Käsikirja Liftareille) and also Israel (מדריך הטרמפיסט לגלקסיה). In
the meantime the book has been translated into more than thirty languages, such as Bulgarian (Пътеводител на галактическия стопаджия), Czech
(Stopařův průvodce Galaxií), Farsi/Persian (راهنمای مسافران مجانی کهکشان), French (Le routard galactique), Greek (Γυρίστε το Γαλαξία με Ωτο-στόπ),
Hungarian (Galaxis Útikalauz stopposoknak), Italian (Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti),
Japanese (銀河ヒッチハイク・ガイド), Korean (은하수를 여행하는히치하이커를 위한 안내서),
Latvian (Galaktikas ceļvedis stopētājiem), Norwegian (Haikerens guide til Galaksen, first published as På tommeltotten til
melkeveien), Brazilian Portuguese (Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias), Portuguese (À Boleia Pela Galáxia), Polish (Autostopem przez galaktykę),
Romanian (Ghidul autostopistului galactic), Russian (Автостопом по Галактике), Serbian (Autostoperski vodič kroz galaksiju), Slovenian (Štoparski
vodnik po Galaksiji), Spanish (Guía del autoestopista galáctico), Slovak (Stopárov sprievodca galaxiou), Czech (Stopařův průvodce galaxií) and
Turkish (Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi).
Spelling: The different versions of the series spell the title differently−thus Hitch-Hiker's Guide, Hitch Hiker's Guide and Hitchhiker's Guide
are used in different editions (US or UK), formats (audio or print) and compilations of the book, with some omitting the apostrophe. Some editions
used different spellings on the spine and title page. The h2g2's English Usage in Approved Entries claims that Hitchhiker's Guide is the spelling
Adams preferred. At least two reference works make note of the inconsistency in the titles. Both, however, repeat the statement that Adams decided
in 2000 that "everyone should spell it the same way [one word, no hyphen] from then on."
Bibliography:
Adams, Douglas (2002).
Guzzardi, Peter, ed. The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (first UK ed.). Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-76657-1 (2003).
Perkins, Geoffrey, ed. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts. MJ Simpson, add. mater (25th Anniversary ed.).
Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-41957-9.
Gaiman, Neil (2003). Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Titan Books. ISBN 1-84023-742-2.
Simpson, M. J. (2003). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (first US ed.). Justin Charles & Co. ISBN 1-932112-17-0.
The Pocket Essential Hitchhiker's Guide (second ed.) (2005). Pocket Essentials. ISBN 1-904048-46-3.
Stamp, Robbie, editor (2005). The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Filming of the Douglas Adams Classic. Boxtree.
ISBN 0-7522-2585-5.
Webb, Nick (2005). Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams (first US hardcover ed.). Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-47650-6.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by
Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams' radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in
London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopedia.
Plot summary: The book begins with city council workmen arriving at Arthur Dent's house. They wish to demolish his house in order to build a
bypass. Arthur's best friend, Ford Prefect, arrives, warning him of the end of the world. Ford is revealed to be an alien who had come to
Earth to research it for the titular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, an enormous work providing information about every planet and place in
the universe. The two head to a pub, where the locals question Ford's knowledge of the Apocalypse. An alien race, known as Vogons, show up to
demolish Earth in order to build a bypass for an intergalactic highway. Arthur and Ford manage to get onto the Vogon ship just before Earth is
demolished, where they are forced to listen to horrible Vogon poetry as a form of torture. Arthur and Ford are ordered to say how much they
like the poetry in order to avoid being thrown out of the airlock, and while Ford finds listening to be painful, Arthur believes it to be
genuinely good, since human poetry is apparently even worse. Arthur and Ford are then placed into the airlock and jettisoned into space, only
to be rescued by Zaphod Beeblebrox's ship, the Heart of Gold. Zaphod, a semi-cousin of Ford, is the President of the Galaxy, and is
accompanied by a depressed robot named Marvin and a human woman by the name of Trillian. The five embark on a journey to find the legendary
planet known as Magrathea, known for selling luxury planets. Once there, they are taken into the planet's centre by a man named
Slartibartfast. There, they learn that a supercomputer named Deep Thought, who determined the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and
everything to be the number 42, created Earth as an even greater computer to calculate the question to which 42 is the answer. Trillian's
mice, actually part of the group of sentient and hyper-intelligent superbeings that had Earth created in the first place, reject the idea of
building a second Earth to redo the process, and offer to buy Arthur's brain in the hope that it contains the question, leading to a fight
when he declines. Zaphod saves Arthur when the brain is about to be removed, and the group decides to go to The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe.
Illustrated edition: The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a specially designed book made in 1994. It was first printed in the
United Kingdom by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and in the United States by Harmony Books (who sold it for $42.00). It is an oversized book, and came
in silver-foil "holographic" covers in both the UK and US markets. It features the first appearance of the 42 Puzzle, designed by Adams
himself, a photograph of Adams and his literary agent Ed Victor as the two space cops, and many other designs by Kevin Davies, who has
participated in many Hitchhiker's related projects since the stage productions in the late 1970s. Davies himself appears as Prosser. This
edition is out of print – Adams bought up many remainder copies and sold them, autographed, on his website.
In other media: Audiobook adaptations: There have been three audiobook recordings of the novel. The first was an abridged edition
(ISBN 0-671-62964-6), recorded in the mid-1980s by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the radio
series, LP adaptations and in the TV series. In 1990, Adams himself recorded an unabridged edition for Dove Audiobooks (ISBN 1-55800-273-1),
later re-released by New Millennium Audio (ISBN 1-59007-257-X) in the United States and available from BBC Audiobooks in the United Kingdom.
Also by arrangement with Dove, ISIS Publishing Ltd produced a numbered exclusive edition signed by Douglas Adams (ISBN 1-85695-028-X) in 1994.
To tie-in with the 2005 film, actor Stephen Fry, the film's voice of the Guide, recorded a second unabridged edition (ISBN 0-7393-2220-6).
Television series: The popularity of the radio series gave rise to a six-episode television series, directed and produced by Alan J. W. Bell,
which first aired on BBC 2 in January and February 1981. It employed many of the actors from the radio series and was based mainly on the radio
versions of Fits the First through Sixth. A second series was at one point planned, with a storyline, according to Alan Bell and Mark Wing-Davey
that would have come from Adams's abandoned Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen project (instead of simply making a TV version of the second radio
series). However, Adams got into disputes with the BBC (accounts differ: problems with budget, scripts, and having Alan Bell involved are all
offered as causes), and the second series was never made. Elements of Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen were instead used in the third novel, Life,
the Universe and Everything. The main cast was the same as the original radio series, except for David Dixon as Ford Prefect instead of McGivern,
and Sandra Dickinson as Trillian instead of Sheridan.
Film adaptation: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was adapted into a science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings and released on
28 April 2005 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and on the following day in the United States and Canada. It was rolled out to cinemas
worldwide during May, June, July, August and September.
Series: The deliberately misnamed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Trilogy" consists of six books, five written by Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy (1979), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe and Everything (1982), So Long, and Thanks for All the
Fish (1984) and Mostly Harmless (1992). On 16 September 2008 it was announced that Irish author Eoin Colfer was to pen a sixth book. The book,
entitled And Another Thing..., was published in October 2009, on the 30th anniversary of the publication of the original novel.
Legacy: When Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster was launched into space on the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket in February 2018, it had the words
DON'T PANIC on the dashboard display and carried amongst other items a copy of the novel and a towel.
Awards:
Number one on the Sunday Times best seller list (1979)
Author received the "Golden Pan" (From his publishers for reaching the 1,000,000th book sold) (1984)
Waterstone's Books/Channel Four's list of the 'One Hundred Greatest Books of the Century', at number 24. (1996)
BBC's "Big Read", an attempt to find the "Nation's Best-loved book", ranked it number four. (2003)
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return An uint256 representing the amount owned by the passed address.
*/
function balanceOf(address _owner) public constant returns (uint256 balance) {return balances[_owner];}}
/* ======================================================================================== */
/* Implementation of the basic standard token. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20 */
contract StandardToken is ERC20, BasicToken {mapping (address => mapping (address => uint256)) allowed;
/* Transfer tokens from one address to another
param _from address The address which you want to send tokens from
param _to address The address which you want to transfer to
param _value uint256 the amout of tokens to be transfered
*/
function transferFrom(address _from, address _to, uint256 _value) public returns (bool) {var _allowance = allowed[_from][msg.sender];
// Check is not needed because sub(_allowance, _value) will already throw if this condition is not met
// require (_value <= _allowance);
balances[_to] = balances[_to].add(_value); balances[_from] = balances[_from].sub(_value); allowed[_from][msg.sender] = _allowance.sub(_value); Transfer(_from, _to, _value); return true;}
/* Approve the passed address to spend the specified amount of tokens on behalf of msg.sender.
param _spender The address which will spend the funds.
param _value The amount of Douglas Adams' tokens to be spent.
*/
function approve(address _spender, uint256 _value) public returns (bool) {
// To change the approve amount you must first reduce the allowance
// of the adddress to zero by calling `approve(_spender, 0)` if it
// is not already 0 to mitigate the race condition described here:
// https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20#issuecomment-263524729
require((_value == 0) || (allowed[msg.sender][_spender] == 0)); allowed[msg.sender][_spender] = _value; Approval(msg.sender, _spender, _value); return true;}
/* Function to check the amount of tokens that an owner allowed to a spender.
param _owner address The of the funds owner.
param _spender address The address of the funds spender.
return A uint256 Specify the amount of tokens still available to the spender. */
function allowance(address _owner, address _spender) public constant returns (uint256 remaining) {return allowed[_owner][_spender];}}
/* ======================================================================================== */
/* The Ownable contract has an owner address, and provides basic authorization control
functions, this simplifies the implementation of "user permissions". */
contract Ownable {address public owner;
/* Throws if called by any account other than the owner. */
function Ownable() public {owner = msg.sender;} modifier onlyOwner() {require(msg.sender == owner);_;}
/* Allows the current owner to transfer control of the contract to a newOwner.
param newOwner The address to transfer ownership to. */
function transferOwnership(address newOwner) public onlyOwner {require(newOwner != address(0)); owner = newOwner;}}
/* ======================================================================================== */
contract H2G2 is StandardToken, Ownable {
string public constant name = "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy";
string public constant symbol = "H2G2";
string public version = 'V1.0.42.000.000.The.Primary.Phase';
uint public constant decimals = 18;
uint256 public initialSupply;
uint256 public unitsOneEthCanBuy; /* How many units of H2G2 can be bought by 1 ETH? */
uint256 public totalEthInWei; /* WEI is the smallest unit of ETH (the equivalent */
/* of cent in USD or satoshi in BTC). We'll store */
/* the total ETH raised via the contract here. */
address public fundsWallet; /* Where should ETH sent to the contract go? */
function H2G2 () public {
totalSupply = 42000000 * 10 ** decimals;
balances[msg.sender] = totalSupply;
initialSupply = totalSupply;
Transfer(0, this, totalSupply);
Transfer(this, msg.sender, totalSupply);
unitsOneEthCanBuy = 1000; /* Set the contract price of the H2G2 token */
fundsWallet = msg.sender; /* The owner of the contract gets the ETH sent */
/* to the H2G2 contract */
}function() public payable{totalEthInWei = totalEthInWei + msg.value; uint256 amount = msg.value * unitsOneEthCanBuy; require(balances[fundsWallet] >= amount); balances[fundsWallet] = balances[fundsWallet] - amount; balances[msg.sender] = balances[msg.sender] + amount;
Transfer(fundsWallet, msg.sender, amount); /* Broadcast a message to the blockchain */
/* Transfer ether to fundsWallet */
fundsWallet.transfer(msg.value);}
/* Approves and then calls the receiving contract */
function approveAndCall(address _spender, uint256 _value, bytes _extraData) public returns (bool success) {allowed[msg.sender][_spender] = _value; Approval(msg.sender, _spender, _value);
/* call the receiveApproval function on the contract you want to be notified. This crafts the function signature manually so one doesn't have to include a contract in here just for this.
receiveApproval(address _from, uint256 _value, address _tokenContract, bytes _extraData)
it is assumed that when does this that the call *should* succeed, otherwise one would use vanilla approve instead. */
if(!_spender.call(bytes4(bytes32(keccak256("receiveApproval(address,uint256,address,bytes)"))), msg.sender, _value, this, _extraData)) { return; } return true;}}
/* ======================================================================================== */
/* At the risk of being quite redundant, we shall reiterate some of the previously provided information from the header section of this token code.
As mentioned above, this token has a total supply of 42,000,000 tokens which is not only twice the total supply of BitCoin (BTC), but is also
shades of "The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything" to which the answer is forty two. The supplementary token, however, has a
total supply of only 42 tokens, the reason for which should be quite obvious. The "ticker" symbol for these two tokens differ only by case: This
token is H2G2 whilst the supplementary token is h2g2. The token names however are completely different. This token is The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy whilst the supplemental token is HHGTTG. We would wish to ask that you refrain from using non-existent words: "hodl", abbreviations:
"lambo", and ridiculous phrases: "to the moon" when referring to these tokens. We would much prefer the use of such terms as: "hold until the
ends of the earth", "star buggy", and "to magrathea". Marvin the Paranoid Android thanks you in advance, for he has waited 576 thousand million
years for these tokens to rematerialize out of the space time continuum. Now, THAT my friends is HOLDING. Although we do not plan to offer these
tokens for sale, they may be acquired by simply sending eth to the contract address. The contract will then respond by sending tokens back to the
address from which the eth was sent. The smallest amount of eth that may be sent to the contract is: .000000000000000001. The contract will
exhibit this behaviour until such time as the total supply of tokens has been depleted. */
/* ======================================================================================== */
{
"compilationTarget": {
"H2G2.sol": "H2G2"
},
"libraries": {},
"optimizer": {
"enabled": false,
"runs": 200
},
"remappings": []
}
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