So you’ve just discovered that your best friend is an alien from the darkest side of the moon and the planet you call home is to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass? For starters - DONT PANIC! Grab your towel and hitch a ride on a passing spaceship. If you think that’s improbable, it is - infinitely improbable, and that’s the principle that the Guide operates on. Space cowboys Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox zip around the galaxy in a super-spaceship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive. Keeping them company are Trillian, who in another life was Tricia Macmillan of Islington, and Marvin the paranoid android.
Douglas Adams gave us the Guide in 1977 and the world was never the same again. H2G2 began life as a radio series and morphed into a trilogy that stretched to 5 books. It’s a Guide to the intricacies of Adams’ techno-obsessed imagination and to the inspired lunacy of his writing. It’s H G Wells on LSD, Jules Verne on Prozac. It’ll suck you into the Total Perspective Vortex, toss you out into the starfields of hyperspace and all you can do is submit to the weird and wonderful rollercoaster ride aboard the Heart of Gold.
So if by some infinitely improbable chance you’ve spent this life on Earth without having read the Guide, do it NOW! Make your way to Milliways, Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in hand, towel at waist and enjoy the end of the universe - it might just be your last chance to see