Wild satire .
How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert universal Armageddon and save Life as we know it--and don\'t know it Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.-- Arizona Daily Star.
They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing
Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it
Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior
Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.
Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.
The universe, that is.
The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.-- Chicago Tribune The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. . .
Wild satire
