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Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1549x2221, 121 KB) This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the publisher of the book. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
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The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0345391810) is the second book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ...
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984, ISBN 0-345-39183-7) is the fourth book of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams. ...
Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything The 42 Puzzle, as it appeared in The Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything has a numeric solution in Douglas Adams series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
The story was originally outlined by Adams as Doctor Who and the Krikketmen to be a Tom Baker Doctor Who television six-part story, but was rejected by the BBC.[1] It was later considered as a plotline for the second series of the Hitchhiker's TV series, which was never commissioned. For other persons named Tom Baker, see Tom Baker (disambiguation). ...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,[1] was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adamss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two. ...
A radio adaptation of Life, the Universe and Everything was recorded in 2003 under the guidance of Dirk Maggs, starring the surviving members of the cast of the original Hitchhiker's radio series. Adams himself, at his own suggestion, makes a cameo appearance; due to his death before production began on the series, this was achieved by sampling his character's dialogue from an audio book of the novel read by Adams that was published in the 1990s. The radio adaptation debuted on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004. The terms Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase and Quintessential Phase describe the radio adaptations of the books Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish and Mostly Harmless recorded in 2003 and 2004 by Above the Title Productions for BBC Radio 4. ...
Dirk Maggs is a freelance writer and director working across all media. ...
Peter Jackson in The Fellowship of the Ring (top), The Two Towers (middle) and The Return of the King (bottom). ...
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This book is the only in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series to have been censored in its U.S. edition. An extensive but still incomplete list of the changes between the two versions can be found on an archived web page. Possibly the most famous example of censorship is in Chapter 21, which in the UK edition mentions that a Rory was an award for the most gratuitous use of the word fuck in a serious screenplay. In the US edition, this was changed to "Belgium" and the text from the original radio series describing "Belgium" as the most offensive word in the galaxy is reused. It should further be noted that translations of this novel, and the 2004 radio series, derive from the UK edition ("Scheisse" ["shit"] is used in the German edition, and "f**e" in the Romanian, for example), and thus omit the description of "Belgium." This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Plot summary
Stranded on pre-historic Earth, the unfortunate Arthur Dent decides to spend his time to the fullest by going insane. Just as he makes this decision he is sidetracked by the sudden reappearance of his old friend, Ford Prefect. Prefect pulls him through an eddy in the space-time continuum (cleverly disguised as an anachronistic sofa) and into Lord's Cricket Ground two days before the Vogons are to destroy the Earth. Unfortunately, the pitch is about to be the scene of a shocking act of intergalactic terrorism. A ship lands and a squad of robots steals The Ashes while wreaking havoc in what seems to be an obscene parody of cricket. Slartibartfast, former award-winning designer of fjords, arrives too late to stop the violence, but asks Ford and Arthur to help him. Information Species Human Gender Male Age 30 (approx. ...
Mos Def as Ford Prefect (left), along with Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent (right), from the 2005 film adaptation. ...
In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle. ...
An anachronism (from Greek ana, back, and chronos, time) is an artifact that belongs to another time, a person who seems to be displaced in time (i. ...
The Pavilion The Grand Stand Match in progress The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground This memorial stone to Lord Harris is in the Harris Garden at Lords Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London, at grid reference TQ268827. ...
The Vogons are a fictional alien race in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams: Heres what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: Forget it. ...
The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia - it is international crickets most celebrated rivalry and dates back to 1882. ...
Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ...
There are many minor characters in the 5-part fictional trilogy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
On Slartibartfast's ship, powered by the awe-inspiring Bistromathic drive, Arthur learns the history of Krikkit. Long ago, the inhabitants of Krikkit were a quaint, peaceful people. Their planet and sun had been encircled by an immense dust cloud as long as they could remember; since they couldn't see the stars, they had never considered the possibility of life outside their home. When a spaceship screamed through the dust cloud and crash-landed on Krikkit, the Krikkiters were traumatised beyond words. After confirming the existence of a universe outside of their dust cloud, the only course of action, they decided, was to build a fleet with which to destroy it. They launched a fleet of warships and robots to slaughter every other species; they were defeated after a long and bloody war and the people of Krikkit were sentenced by galactic judge Judiciary Pag to be sealed within a Slo-Time envelope until the rest of the universe died out naturally. (The British sport of cricket, as it turns out, came about as the result of a vague interspecies collective unconscious memory; everyone else in the universe with knowledge of the Krikkit Wars is quite disgusted by how the humans turned it into a sport.) The Bistromathic Drive is a fictional type of starship propulsion system in Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
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Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology originally coined by Carl Jung. ...
Somehow a lone Krikkit warship has escaped the envelope and is looking for the three stumps and two bails that will form the Wikkit Gate; this is the key that will unlock the Slo-Time envelope and release the Krikkiters to complete their genocidal mission. For other uses, see Stump (disambiguation). ...
In the sport of cricket, a bail is one of the two smaller sticks placed on top of the three stumps to form a wicket. ...
The Wikkit Gate is a fictional artifact in the universe of Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, as featured in the novel Life, the Universe and Everything. ...
While pursuing the Krikkit ship, Arthur is somehow diverted to a dark cave where an angry creature confronts him. This creature, who calls himself Agrajag, claims to have been killed by Arthur hundreds of times in various reincarnations. E.G: He was a rabbit killed by Arthur on prehistoric Earth; he was a fly swatted by Arthur; he died of a heart attack when Arthur materialised in the middle of a cricket match he was watching; he was the bowl of petunias suddenly called into existence several miles above the surface of Magrathea, etc. After many of these deaths, he began to notice that the person who dispatched him looked familiar and eventually formed a consciousness that spanned his various lives. Agrajag finally managed a reincarnation in one final hideous form and constructed a Cathedral of Hate for the specific purpose of finally killing Arthur. While recounting his many murders at Arthur's hands, he briefly mentions an assassination attempt on Arthur, in a place called Stavromula Beta. Apparently, the attacker shot at Arthur, who ducked, and the bullet hit another form of Agrajag. Arthur stammers that he's never been to Stavromula Beta, and Agrajag realises that he's brought Arthur to the Cathedral too soon; Arthur cannot be killed until he has been to Stavromula Beta. He attempts to kill Arthur anyway, and suffers yet another accidental death at Arthur's hands. While fleeing from the collapsing cave, Arthur discovers the knack of flying: being able to throw yourself at the ground and miss. He soars jubilantly until he is hit in the small of his back by a flying party, where he rejoins Ford and Slartibartfast. The party is the location of the "Silver Bail" portion of the key, which is also lost to the robots. There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
The group completely fails to stop the Krikkit war party from reconstructing the Key and opening the envelope. However, the Krikkiters seem to have lost their bloodthirstiness over the centuries. As it happens, the dust cloud was actually the pulverised remains of Hactar, a supercomputer built by the Silastic Armorfiends. Hactar was originally tasked by the warlike Armorfiends with creating a weapon of ultimate destruction that would cause every sun in the universe to go supernova simultaneously. Shocked, Hactar did as asked but designed a small flaw into the device. It hoped that when the weapon failed to destroy all of existence, the Armorfiends would see the folly of their ways and turn to a life of peace. Instead, they blasted Hactar into molecules before finding entirely new ways of killing each other. Hactar's construction was such that every molecule retained a bit of its "consciousness", however, and even in its unconventional state was still functional. As the Armorfiends died out and gave way to the peaceful Krikkiters, Hactar resolved to complete its original task. Through centuries of subtle influence, it guided the psychological development of the inhabitants of Krikkit before fabricating a mockup of a ship to inspire their xenophobia. In the wake of the original Krikkit Wars, however, the Slo-Time envelope blocked Hactar's influence and allowed the Krikkiters to return to their peaceful ways. There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
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With the universe seemingly saved, Ford, Arthur and Slartibartfast return The Ashes (which had been, as the Wooden Pillar of Nature and Spirituality, part of the Wikkit Gate). Arthur can't resist his only opportunity to bowl a ball at Lord's; he finds a red ball in his pouch and a batsman obligingly stands before a wicket. As he begins to bowl, time slows and he realises several things. First, the odd sensation he had in his pouch while talking to Hactar, and that the ball really was the supercomputer's doomsday device supplanting the one that had fallen in his bag when he first arrived at Lords, planted there by Hactar. Second, the batsman is in fact a Krikkit robot, and if it manages to strike the ball, it will detonate the bomb and destroy the universe. Distracted by all of these thoughts, Arthur trips, forgets to hit the ground and goes sailing off, sending the weapon sailing harmlessly off into the distance.
Life, the Universe and Everything is the last book in the series to feature the characters of Zaphod Beeblebrox and Slartibartfast.
Audiobook adaptations There have been three audiobook recordings of the novel. The first was an abridged edition, 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, later re-released by New Millennium Audio in the United States and available from BBC Audiobooks in the United Kingdom. In 2006, actor Martin Freeman, who had played Arthur Dent in the 2005 movie, recorded a new unabridged edition of the audiobook. Of further note, Stephen Moore used the censored U.S. edition of the text, while Adams and Freeman used the uncensored UK edition for their recordings. Stephen Moore (born December 11, 1937) is a British actor from Brixton, London. ...
Information Species Android Gender Male Age Thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself Occupation Servant Created by Douglas Adams In the BBC TV series, the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot [like Marvin] as Your plastic pal whos fun to be with. Marvins...
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References - ^ Gaiman, Neil; Dickson, David K; Simpson, M. J (2003-10-01). "Appendix V: Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen", Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 3rd Edition, Titan Books ltd. ISBN 1-84023-501-2.
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