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However, not so good news, the Vogons discover that they are aboard the ship, and decide to throw them into deep space. As if things couldn't get any worse, the Captain,Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, decides to read them some of his poetry first!
If you haven't already experienced Hitch-hiker's, you are missing out. It is one of the most interesting stories ever to be written. It has humour, irony, more humour…
One of the best parts of the story is the second radio series (the plot differs throughout all of it's incarnations), with the Lintillas (and Allitnils), the Shoe Event Horizon, and of course, the man who rules the universe. I must have listened to that tape more than I have re-experienced any other incarnation of Hitch-hiker's.
The story tells of Arthur Dent, whose house is demolished to make way for a bypass, then, in a Pythonesque style, the Earth is destroyed for exactly the same reason. Luckily, Arthur's friend Ford Prefect, who turns out to "be from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and not from Guildford after all" knows of the Earth's impending doom, and manages to get a lift from the very ships that were sent to demolish the planet. Luckily for them, the in-flight caterers, Dentrassi, hate their bosses, the Vogons.
Unfortunately, I have nothing interesting to or original to say about Hitch-hiker's, so I'll sign off now, and I may even remove the page altogether if I can't think of anything cool to say.
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A Hitch-hiker's sound file: Arthur comments on Shakespearean apes
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