LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING

now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, soon to be a hulu original series wild satire . . . 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. the universe, that is. now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. 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. 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