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Arthur Dent
Babel fish
Deep Thought
Ford Prefect
Kill-O-Zap gun
Magrathea
Marvin
Mr. L. Prosser
Nutri-Matic machine
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
Slartibartfast
The Dentrassis
The Heart of Gold
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Trillian
Vogon
Zaphod Beeblebrox
the Infinite Improbability Drive
the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
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moving quietly through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet; several somethings in fact, several dozen huge yellow chunky slablike somethings, huge as office blocks... Whatever it was raced across the sky in its monstrous yellowness, tore the sky apart with a mind-buggering noise
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Energize the demolition beams.
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a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green sylph-like maximegalaticians, an octopodic physucturalist or two and a Hooloovoo (a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue). All except the Hooloovoo were resplendent in their multi-coloured ceremonial lab coats; the Hooloovoo had been temporarily refracted into a freestanding prism for the occasion.
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The robot camera homed in for a close-up on the more popular of his two heads and he waved again. He was roughly humanoid in appearance except for the extra head and third arm. His tousled fair hair stuck out in random directions, his blue eyes glinted with something completely unidentifiable, and his chins were almost always unshaven.
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She was slim, darkish, humanoid, with long waves of black hair, a full mouth, an odd little knob of a nose and ridiculously brown eyes. With her red head scarf knotted in that particular way and her long flowing silky brown dress she looked vaguely Arabic.
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a huge starship, one hundred and fifty metres long, shaped like a sleek running shoe, perfectly white and mindbogglingly beautiful. At the heart of it, unseen, lay a small gold box which carried within it the most brain-wrenching device ever conceived, a device which made this starship unique in the history of the galaxy, a device after which the ship had been named – the Heart of Gold.
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The President in particular is very much a figurehead – he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
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Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was not a pleasant sight, even for other Vogons. His highly domed nose rose high above a small piggy forehead. His dark-green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to play the game of Vogon Civil Service politics, and play it well, and waterproof enough for him to survive indefinitely at sea depths of up to a thousand feet with no ill effects.
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scintillating jewelled scuttling crabs
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A huge furry creature bounded through the door with his lunch tray.
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Genres Featured In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Science Fiction
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Comedy
(Dominant)
Adventure
(Prominent)
Satire
(Notable)
Fantasy
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Themes Featured In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Absurdity of Life
(Major)
Friendship
(Moderate)
Interstellar Travel
(Significant)
The Importance of Perspective
(Noticable)
Humor and Satire
(Central)
Technology and Its Impacts
(Minor)
Existentialism
(Moderate)
Bureaucracy
(Significant)
Tones In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Humorous
(Very Strong)
Cynical
(Moderate)
Absurd
(Strong)
Sarcastic
(Noticable)
Reflective
(Mild)
Witty
(Strong)
Playful
(Moderate)
Surreal
(Moderate)
Nostalgic
(Mild)
Philosophical
(Mild)
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