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While searching for the question whose answer is 42, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect have been stranded on prehistoric Earth in a horrible mistake in traveling through time and space. Luckily for Arthur and Ford, after five years a couch shows up and takes them back to Earth, two days before it is scheduled to blow up. (Time travel is a funny thing, isn't it?) White killer robots show up, Arthur is nearly killed in another mistake in time, and the strange Magrathrean, Slartibartfast, asks the pair to help save the Universe. What could be strange about that? At least Arthur learns to fly. "The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss" (qtd. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) And on the way they take in a game of cricket, join a fourth-generation party that can fly, and catch up with everyone's favorite robot, the eternally depressed Marvin. This is yet another book by Adams full of humor strange enough to confuse a rocket scientist. This is the third in the only trilogy in the world with five different books. So pick it up at your local library or bookstore, and jump right in. Or rather, throw yourself.
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