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In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, an average ordinary Englishman named Arthur Dent has had a not so average and ordinary day. To start off, his house was bulldozed in order to make room for a highway. He then finds out that his friend, Ford Prefect, is not in fact, from the same world as he is and is quickly teleported to one of many giant spaceships that are about to destroy Earth in order to make room for an intergalactic bypass. Arthur and Ford are then booted off of the ship and then quickly saved by another spaceship that distorts time and space by generating highly improbable events in order to travel through space faster. So to say the least, it has not been an average and ordinary day. This new and strange ship, being piloted by the arrogant president of the galaxy, Zaphod, has become Arthur’s new home, in which he travels through space on a wild goose chase to find Magrathea, a legendary planet that makes other planets for profit, in order to find out the true meaning of life.

By Shig Kubo