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“Life, The Universe and Everything“
 
  
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Contents
  • About the author .................................................................................................................... 3
  • Plot ........................................................................................................................................... 4
  • Characters ............................................................................................................................... 5
  • Theme / setting .......................................................................................................................... 6
  • Language and style.................................................................................................................. 7
  • More about the novel .............................................................................................................. 8
  • Sources ..................................................................................................................................... 9

About the author
Douglas Noël Adams was and English writer (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001). He borned in Cambridge . When he was five years old, his parents got divorced and he moved to Bretnwood with his mother and sister . From 1959 until 1970 he studied at Brentwood School in Essex. In 1974 he decided to become a writer. But nothing didn’t bring him success . He worked with Graham Chapman, John Lloyd, but mos of his projects fell flat .
In 1977 he met Simon Brett from Radio 4 and they produced a radio show there . It was the birth of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “. He even wrote “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“ into the novel in 1979. Adams wrote 4 books as a sequel and “Life, The Universe and Everything“ is the 3rd book of the series. Books have been adapted into television series, stage plays , comic books. Over 15 miullions copies of books have been sold during his lifetime . In 2005, Garth Jennings even made a film “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“.
Adams has also written “ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency “ (1987), “The Long Dark Tea-Tme of the Soul “ (1988), “Last Chance to See“ (1990) and even stories for television series “ Doctor Who“. After his death in 2001, a collection of his work was published in a book “The Salmon of Doubt“ (2002).
Douglas married Jane Belson on November 24 1991. They got daughter in 1994. He died on 11 May 2001 of a heart attack. A memorial service was held at the same year . There is also Douglas Adams’s gravestone in London.
Plot
Arthur Dent has been lived in a cave , feeling alone , for the last four years. But then, his old friend Ford Perfect finds him. Ford is followed by a chesterfield sofa that happens to be going their way. It drags them into a space-time eddy. Thanks to that they find Lord ’s Cricket ground . There they get know , that Vogons will destroy the Earth. And it all happens after... two days . There they meet Slartibartfast and a collection of evil robots, who can play cricket. Slartibartfast brings them in Bistro Mathematics powered spacecraft. There, Arthur and Ford have to fill in the warriors of the planet Krikkit. Slartibartfast tells them, that they have to stop evil robots from collecting components of the Wikkit Gate at the planet Krikkit. Before it was a peaceful planet. So, now they collect artifacts, that contains deadly intention about how to release their master.
When they realize that it’s not possible to satisfy Krikkit’s population from the existence, they envelop that system in a Slo-Time envelope. It let Krikkit to survive , even when the the rest of the universe ends. The key to Slo-Time envelope was a key. Then robots arrive who escaped the envelope. They retrieve the pieces of the Gate.
When another piece of the Gate, the Silver Bail is found , Arthur is being separated from the others and he finds himself at a Cathedral of Hate. It’s created by a creature Agrajag. He tries to kill Arthur because of assassinations by Arthur. Luckily, Agrajag realises that when he kills hilm, it causes a paradox, because Arthur had to cause his death ath Stavromula Beta and took Arthur out of his relative timeline too soon. But he kills Arthur anyway. But Arthur escapes somehow, flying . He learned to fly many years ago when he missed the ground while catching sight of a piece of luggage he had lost in Greek. When he finds the luggage, he comes on the flying part and find his friend again. They find Trillian, but they get know that they are too late already . Robots are already stealing the Bail. Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Slaribartfast return to the Bistromath and try to stop the robots before activating the Wikkit Gate, that would meaning destruction of the Earth. When Robots at Krikkit steal the last piece the Infinite Improbability Drive take out the “heart“ from the spaceship Heart of Gold , which. But at the same time Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Paranoid Android are captured.
Trillian leaves Zaphod on the Heart of Gold because he is atrabilious. Zaphod feels that life is inane. Trillian, Ford, Arthur and Slartibartfast end up at a flying cocktail party after Arthur has learned how to fly. But at Krikkit they meet the robots again.
Now they have to save the universe. But can they do that? And they find an answer for life, the universe, and everything.
Characters
Because it is the 3rd book of the series, many characters are familiar from previous two books.
Two main characters are Arthur Dent and Ford Perfect. Two best friends . Arthur Dent is just an ordinary man, one of us. So is Ford. Trillian is mathematician and astrophysicist. She met Arthur in the spaceship Heart of Gold after the Earth has been destroyed. She is humanoid with fairish hair and dark eyes. The fourth is Slartibartfast, who comes from Magrathea and he designs the planets of the galaxy. He is the wise one, like druid who knows everything. They four are the main one, who are destined to save the galaxy.
Slartibartfast is a designer of planets ( travelling between planets is the same ordinary like walking throught streets in our life). He has also designed fjords in Norway . In that books he picks up Arthur Dent and Ford Perfect on Lord's Cricket Ground with Starship Bistromath and they go to stop Krikkit's robot , who want to bring together the pieces of Wikkit Gate.
The book mentions the thunder god Thor, vikings god (vikigns lived in Norway).
Ford’s cousin is Zaphod Beeblebrox, because they have same mothers. Zaphod is unusual character with two heads and three arms. Also his clothing is notable. He wears rare clothes that are brightly contrast coloured.
Marvin is the Paranoid Android (android is like a robot, who speak many different languages). Marvin is the robot in Heart of Gold. His brain has the size of a planet. He is claimed to be 50,000 times smarter than every human being. In that novel, Marvin survive from the impinging with the Sun of Kakrafoon. He will enter into some kind of a time machine Improbability Field, engineered by the Heart of Gold to be rescued by a scrap metal trader on planet Squrornshellous Zeta . The metal trader grafted a steel rod to Marvin, because he had lost his leg. In the planet Squrornshellous Zeta he was also asked to open a new bridge between the planets. In the opening ceremony he plugged himself into the bridge’s opening circuit and the bridge commited suicide , like a the police computer, and it took the entire crowed around there with it. And Marvin was left in the swamp, new false leg in the mud. He is kidnapped by a squad of war robots of planet robot, because they want Marvin’s leg. It reopens their imprisoned world and also restarts the genocidal Krikkit War. Although the robots try to avail Marvin’s intelligence, it fails and Marvin is rescued by his freind in the Heart of Gold.
Themes/setting
This the 3rd book of the series by Douglas Adams.
The author hadn’t chosen a certain time when he wrote the book. All the four books are sequels of „The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy“ and the author probably had some more ideas , about how to bring back the old characters. There are many citations from his previous books. It’s bounded with his last two books and the setting is also located in the Earth at the begining of th book,
The story is set in the Universe. When usually people go to from another city to another, then there the author had create planets, where they travel .
Language and style
Usually the first book/movie is also better than the followings. So is with "Life, The Universe and Everything". Having said that, it's a classic story, that brings before more hilarious adventures. It has an easy understanding words and style isn't so hard . It was sure , that the author wrote it for younger people too, so they could understand . One perfect example is " Harry Potter" books, that fits to young and olders. The theme of the book is not not only science fiction and action . It is also both of them, but it’s also comedy and absurd humour. Although they are not connected with the plot, it’s a great entertainment. That makes it better than serious science fiction. The cover of the book is also rather funny.
More about the novel
I would like to suggest reading the novel to all, who does has a sense of humour and like comedy. The genere is set to science fiction also, but only the setting is set on the Universe, that makes it a science fictional novel.
The novel is the third book of a science fiction series. The first book is „Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“, which is also adapted into the movie. And read the second book “ The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe“. After that, maybe it’s also easier to understand that book. It’s more like continuation of these two.
2nd book „The Restaurant at the end of the Universe“
Sources
http://www.douglasadams.se/biography/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/dirkgently/images/douglas_adams340x225.jpg
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