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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by
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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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a staggering new form of specialist industry: custom-made luxury planet building. The home of this industry was the planet Magrathea, where hyperspatial engineers sucked matter through white holes in space to form it into dream planets – gold planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes – all lovingly made to meet the exacting standards that the Galaxy’s richest men naturally came to expect.
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Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject’s taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject’s metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject’s brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
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what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?’
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humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and super-intelligent shades of the colour blue
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He was tallish, elderly and dressed in a single long grey robe. When he turned, his face was thin and distinguished, careworn but not unkind, the sort of face you would happily bank with.
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So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting.
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The wall. The wall defied the imagination – seduced it and defeated it. The wall was so paralysingly vast and sheer that its top, bottom and sides passed away beyond the reach of sight.
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light hung about shadowy spherical shapes that hung in the space. ‘This,’ said Slartibartfast, ‘is where we make most of our planets, you see.’
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Genres Featured In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Science Fiction
(Major)
Comedy
(Dominant)
Adventure
(Prominent)
Satire
(Notable)
Fantasy
(Sub-Genre)
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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