The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0-345-39181-0) is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel" by British rock band Procol Harum.^[1] It takes its name from Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, one of the settings of the book. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... 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. ... Some notable science fiction novels, in alphabetical order by title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke 334 by Thomas M. Disch An Age by Brian Aldiss The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Hardcover books A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... ISBN redirects here. ... The cover of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from a late 1990s US printing. ... Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ... 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. ... Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. ... Procol Harum is an English rock band, formed in the 1960s, who built a heavy foundation for what would become progressive rock. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... This box:      The ultimate fate of the universe is a topic in physical cosmology. ...

Plot summary

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe begins just as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ended. Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Zaphod Beeblebrox have just left the planet Magrathea when they are attacked by a Vogon ship. They find they are unable to use the Improbability Drive to escape, as Arthur has accidentally jammed the computer with a difficult enquiry about a cup of tea. Luckily, an ancestor of Zaphod's, Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth saves them. The cover of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from a late 1990s US printing. ... For the Australian political activist see Albert Langer Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ... Mos Def as Ford Prefect (left), along with Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent (right), from the 2005 film adaptation. ... Zooey Deschanel as Trillian from the film adaptation. ... This article is about the fictional character. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, a Vogon from the BBC television series. ... There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...

Zaphod and Marvin vanish, and reappear at the offices of the Guide on Ursa Minor Beta. They are looking for Zarniwoop, who has gone on an intergalactic cruise in his office via his virtual universe. Arthur, Trillian and Ford are unaware of any of this, knowing only that the computer has been shut down, and only having received a message from a stalling Nutrimatic that says "Wait." 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... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser is a product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, a machine featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ...

When Zaphod and Marvin reach the fifteenth floor of the Guide's office, half of the building is lifted off the ground by Frogstar Fighters. A mysterious man named Roosta brings Zaphod to Zarniwoop's office, where they wait until the building lands on Frogstar World B. Roosta gives Zaphod final instructions before he leaves: go through the window on his way out, not the door. Zaphod then meets Gargravarr who informs Zaphod that he is to be sent through the Total Perspective Vortex, a machine which kills you by showing you just how how infinitely small you are compared to the universe. However, when Zaphod enters it, the Vortex shows him that he is the most important thing in the universe. Zaphod escapes, and finds Zarniwhoop in the first class cabin of a spaceliner in an abandoned spaceport. This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... The Total Perspective Vortex, in the fictional world of Douglas Adamss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, is the most horrible torture device to which a sentient being can be subjected. ...

Zarniwoop explains that the Total Perspective Vortex has not malfunctioned: this is a virtual universe created by Zarniwoop for the sole benefit of Zaphod, who is indeed therefore the most important creature in this universe. It turns out that Zaphod had the shrunk Heart of Gold in his jacket pocket the whole time. It is reconstituted, and Zaphod is reunited with Trillian, Arthur and Ford. They escape from Zarniwoop by asking to be transported to the nearest restaurant. Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is the nearest restaurant in space but not time and so they are transported there. Marvin has spent the past several millenia parking diners' cars while waiting for the humans to return. After the meal, Zaphod and Ford steal a spaceship, which turns out to be a stuntship belonging to the rock band Disaster Area, programmed to dive into a star to provide backing effects for a rock concert. Heart of Gold is a fictional spaceship in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ... A disaster area is a region or locale heavily damaged by either natural events, such as hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes), or by war. ... The term, rock concert, refers to a musical performance in the style of any one of many genres inspired by rock and roll music. ...

The teleporter on the ship has no guidance system as it was never intended to be used, so they have to go wherever it takes them. Arthur and Ford end up in the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B, which crash-lands on prehistoric Earth. They realize that the bumbling travelers are the real ancestors of modern humans, not the Neanderthals originally inhabiting the planet. Arthur attempts to determine the Question to Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything by reaching into a rabbit-skin Scrabble bag and pulling out letters randomly, hoping Deep Thought's computational matrix in Earth would have rubbed off on his subconscious. The letters spell "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" before running out, although the Neanderthals manage to spell 42 with the tiles, implying that it is they rather than the Golgafrinchans who were intended to be part of Earth's computer matrix. This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... This is a list of races, fauna, and flora (as well as creatures without category) featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... This article is about modern humans. ... 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 verb to scrabble also means to scratch, scramble or scrape about: see Wiktionary:scrabble. ... Deep Thought may refer to: Deep Thought, a fictional computer in the book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Deep Thought, an IBM-produced chess computer, named after the Hitchhikers Guides Deep Thought Deep Thought, a chatterbot made to work over IRC, named after the Hitchhikers... See also: Unconscious mind. ...

Zaphod and Trillian return to the Heart of Gold, which is commandeered by Zarniwoop to complete his mission: to discover who really rules the Universe.

Radio series

The original Pan Books cover from 1980

The plot is based on the last eight Fits of the original radio series (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was based on the first four). The fragments of the plot are rearranged, and some do not appear at all. For example, Arthur and Ford were stranded on prehistoric Earth at the end of Fit the Sixth and later rescued; they are now stranded at the end of the book, and the episode of their rescue is deleted. The episodes taking place on the planet Brontitall are transferred to the Frogstar and hugely compressed, omitting several characters who do not appear elsewhere. The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...

Most significantly, in the radio series the ship stolen from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe belonged not to Disaster Area, but to the admiral of the fleet of a Haggunenons (a warlike "hyper-evolutionary" race), who would evolve into any random shape in a matter of seconds. This evolutionary instability made them very jealous of stable life forms or as they called them "filthy rotten stinking same-lings". If for example one was drinking coffee and could not reach the sugar it would, with out a second thought evolve into something with much longer arms, but which was quite incapable of drinking the coffee. This is a list of races, fauna and flora featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...

In the original two radio series, Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin were all said to have escaped when the Hagunnenon Admiral "re-evolved" into an escape capsule. Zaphod wound up at the Hitchhiker's Guide offices, Trillian was married off and disappeared from the series, and Marvin wound up through "a string of adventures" before also arriving at the Hitchhiker's Guide offices. This was changed slightly in the 2004-05 radio series adaptations of the final three books: Zaphod is told that he and Trillian escaped back to the Heart of Gold together, and Marvin was left behind on the stolen Haggunenon Admiral's flagship, before being rescued. However, the original storyline is not completely ignored: instead it was a byproduct timeline caused by the Vogons interfering with the probability axis, combined with the effects of the Total Perspective Vortex.-1...

Audiobook adaptations

There have been three audiobook recordings of the novel. The first was an abridged edition, recorded in 1981 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. 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... Martin Freeman (born September 8, 1971) is an English actor. ... For the Australian political activist see Albert Langer Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ...

Hitchhiker's Portal

v • d • e The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams Books 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 · The Original Radio Scripts · The Salmon of Doubt Media Radio series (Phases 1 & 2, Phases 3, 4 & 5) · TV series · Movie · Computer game · Starship Titanic game · Differences between versions · Cast lists Characters Arthur Dent · Ford Prefect · Zaphod Beeblebrox · Marvin · Trillian · Slartibartfast · The Guide · Minor characters · Races and species Places Comprehensive list · Total Perspective Vortex · Heart of Gold · Wikkit Gate · Galactic Empire · Whole Sort of General Mish Mash Miscellanea 42 Puzzle · Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything · Babel fish · Bistromathic drive · h2g2 · Infinite Improbability Drive · International Phenomenon · Notable phrases · Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster · Point-of-view gun · Sirius Cybernetics Corporation · Towel Day · Vogon poetry · "Journey of the Sorcerer" See also Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion · Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams · Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  Portal:Hitchhiker's

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References in Culture

The Café at the End of the Universe located at the Griffith Observatory is an homage to Adams' work. Griffith Observatory, September, 2006. ...

References

1. ^ Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt.