Irresistible - Boston Globe Science fiction, but extremely funny and funny... Weird, crazy, completely out of the inherent routines of all previous science fiction novels. --"Washington post" The protagonist, Arthur Dent, is quite similar to the characters in Kurt Vonig's works. The whole book is full of mockery and criticism of the reality of human society. -- "Chicago Tribune" In a word, this is the funniest, weirdest science fiction novel ever written, with whimsy everywhere, from cover to cover. ——"Book Weekly" A wildly quirky version of Homer's epic "Odyssey," where characters roam the galaxy and delight readers. ——"Publication Weekly"

Earth was destroyed because a hyperspace expressway was to be built in its place.The main character, Arthur Dent, survived because he had a friend named Ford Prefect.On the surface, this friend is an actor who can't find a job, but he is actually an alien, a researcher sent to the earth by the famous book.The two embark on an adventure across the galaxy, and only the infinite wisdom contained in a book can help them. During the journey, they met a group of very interesting companions, including: Zaphod Beeblebrox: A two-headed, three-armed galaxy bandit who is also the president of the Galactic Empire.

Trillian: Zaphod's accomplice, the only surviving Earthling besides Arthur Dent.In fact, Arthur had known Trillian before, and had tried to hook her up, but unfortunately he hadn't succeeded. Marvin: Genius robot, extremely suspicious, extremely depressed, extremely nagging. These characters form a small team, and they will uncover a terrible secret... Remember, though, the advice written in big, friendly letters on the cover: don't panic. Adams was born in Cambridge, England in 1952, and studied in Essex for 12 years. He was most interested in natural science.When I was in school, I also planned to cross Europe to Istanbul, Turkey, and worked a lot of odd jobs to save up travel expenses.After graduating from school at age 18, Adams became a writer, and for a long time went no further than earning a BA in 1974 (and later a MA).It all went on until February 1977, when he met Simon Brett, who was working at the BBC, and they decided to make a sci-fi radio comedy for Channel 4, and so was born.The book quickly became the number one bestseller at the time, and his main work was the five-part Galaxy Odyssey, including, ,, Life, the Universe, and Everything, Goodbye, Thanks Fish, and Mostly Harmless.This series is regarded as one of the "Bibles" of science fiction by Western science fiction readers.The International Asteroid Stewardship Council even named an asteroid for Arthur Dent, the protagonist of the series, due to the outstanding success of the Wandering the Galaxy series. In 1984, Adams became the youngest bestseller winner.This book has been adapted into radio dramas, TV dramas, stage plays and computer games successively, and even bath towels printed with related patterns were once popular.

It is the first book in the series, and Adams has subsequently completed four more books, and there have been continuous publications of excellent works, with sales of more than 15 million copies in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.In addition, he is the founder of H2G2 digital media and networking company, and has participated in the production of the "Starship Troopers" franchise and computer games. Adams also has some lesser-known experiences, such as working as a chicken coop cleaner, serving as a bodyguard for an Arab royal family, and even playing guitar for Pink Floyd on one occasion!

On May 11, 2001, Adams went to the gym for morning exercises as usual, but died suddenly of a heart attack.The day before his death, the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union just named an asteroid numbered 18610 "Arthur Duncan", which may be God's last gift to the living Adams. In 2001, Adams suffered a heart attack and was cooperating with Hollywood producers to put this work on the screen before his death. On April 29, 2005, it was officially released by Disney, and it earned more than 21.7 million U.S. dollars in its premiere week, becoming the North American box office champion of the month.

The movie version of "Wandering" was only released in North America in April this year, and the novel has been popular on the earth for more than 20 years. SFW simply took the movie poster as the book cover, which is good, I found what I wanted at a glance in the bookstore.The print run was 13,000 copies, which is quite high for the SFW Masters series.Then soon, the sequel "restaurant" was also printed and released. Science fiction provides an endless source of imagination for novels.Funny, let these unlimited imaginations add a layer of popular tacky charm.Therefore, sci-fi fans also love to read this book, and non-sci-fi fans also love to read this book.

If the whole book is full of nonsense and nonsense, then the "Roaming" series is at most the level of Internet comedy. The "Roaming" series has been popular for more than 20 years because of its tenacious story line and lively protagonists.Five novels, always telling stories around one line, why is the ending fate of the universe "42"? .Several protagonists, from Arthur, the last man on earth, to Zaphod, the governor of the universe, to Marvin, the weak robot, all come alive.It's like extracting the most attractive personalities from your friends and then extremeizing them to become virtuous.These protagonists are your friends, and they are doing things you dare not let go of.Zaphod, a satirical maniac, can't live without being sarcastic for a minute. The poor earthman Arthur is wise and intelligent, but he is ridiculed as a monkey by Zaphod just because he evolved from an ape-man.Every now and then, he said, "Why don't you go back to the tree?"

One of the protagonists of the novel, the spaceship "Heart of Gold", is driven by a motor called "Infinite Improbability Drive".The function of the driving force of infinite improbability is to complete all the impossible things, and to reproduce all the events whose probability is less than or equal to zero.According to the story in the novel, at the beginning, no one can make this kind of drive, and there is no way to start.Any attempt to make an infinite improbability drive has failed. Then, a clever college student produced an "infinite non-probability drive" through a "finite probability generator".His reasoning process is as follows: If an infinite non-probability device can be made, then the probability of making this device is a specific value. I only need to calculate this value and input the finite probability generating device, then the infinite probability device can be made. .

This student has created an infinite non-probability generating device through the finite probability device.How nonsensical.But you have to admire the "logical rationality". The "Roaming" series did not become a soft sci-fi because of nonsense. On the contrary, it tried to make itself look like a hard sci-fi, and everything that can provide a principle explanation must be provided.For example, the manufacturing principle of the finite probability generator: simply connect the logic circuit based on a single nano-57 meson computer to an atomic vector plotter hung on the strong Brownian motion generator.Wouldn't someone really follow suit to make a finite probability generating device?Knowing that the author is talking nonsense, I just couldn't help but be amused by him: How could someone be so serious in nonsense?

The original work is a radio script, which caused a great sensation after it was broadcast on the BBC in 1978. The original author, Douglas Adams, immediately wrote it into a novel, which became a milestone in the history of science fiction, and the English version sold more than 14 million copies.In a BBC poll, it was the fourth most popular novel of all time.Douglas Adams's, subverts the normalcy of the human mind.It reminds people on Earth that in the face of the vast void, "humans" are like "ignorant primitives", and their understanding of the affairs of the Milky Way is "almost no different from an African mosquito's understanding of life in Beijing".

Douglas Adams was the first writer in the world to successfully combine comedy and science fiction art. On May 11, 2001, Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49.He was still conceiving new plots and story characters for the film until his death, so he is known as the executive producer.The day before his death, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid Arthur Dent.A film adaptation has been something that millions of Adams fans have been looking forward to for years, and they are also concerned about whether the film version will maintain the style of the original book.Counting from the day when the producer bought the shooting rights of the adapted script in 1982, the film has spanned more than 20 years from the brewing to the final shooting and production.I think this film does not have a grand production scene, exquisite sound and picture, no wonderful story interpretation and plot design, and even insufficient presentation of the story. Maybe this film is not a good movie.Perhaps the film is just faithful to the original, recreating Arthur Dent's space adventure comedy story in 110 minutes of video, which caters to the taste of Adams fans, but we need to do some necessary understanding first. In ancient times, if you were worried that the sky would fall, it would be called unfounded worry.Decades ago, Orson Welles, who became the godfather of movies with "Citizen Kane", joked on American radio that the earth would soon be invaded by aliens. Countless people believed it and almost ran away in fright.The destruction of the earth is a very serious event in any era.Not the same.Who Said Earth Is Our Only Habitat?Who said we have to cry when the earth is destroyed?There is a day beyond the sky in this humorous and imaginative sci-fi masterpiece. Customized planets are a new special industry in the universe. Hyperspace engineers absorb matter through white holes in space and construct various planets strictly according to customer requirements.The Manglas built "Earth" according to the customization of the pan-dimensional races.A designer named Slati Bartfast was even awarded a place on Earth called Norway for his beautiful coastline.Yep, that's how the Earth came to be, according to the crazy idea of ​​that british guy named Douglas Adams. Earth longevity?The scientific answer, 4.6 billion years.The sci-fi answer, 10 million years.Yes, the earth was born 10 million years ago, or it should be said that it was built 10 million years ago.In the vast universe, a "super-intelligent pan-dimensional race" is fed up with the endless debate about the meaning of life, and they decide to solve this problem once and for all.They built the second most powerful computer "Meditation" in all space and time of the universe, seeking "the ultimate answer about life, the universe, and everything" from it.After 7.5 million years, "Meditation" gave the answer---42.Faced with this mysterious answer, the pan-dimensional race needs to go back and figure out the ultimate question of the universe of life and everything before it can understand the answer.But Meditation is not up to the daunting task, saying: "You need a computer capable of calculating this ultimate answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself will become the operating matrix You will also be part of this computer as a new life form, to control the 10 million year program. I will design this computer for you, and I have named it. It will be called...Earth." The planet earth and human beings constitute the matrix of an organic computer, running a research program for 10 million years.Incredibly, the new life form of that pan-dimensional race on Earth is the tiny, white, furry, crazy cheese-obsessed that made women scream in early 1960s soap operas The creature---mouse.Human beings conduct experiments on mice and observe their behavior. The process of observing their behavior is actually carefully arranged by mice to study human beings.So, don't be fooled by those false illusions.The earth is actually customized by mice.They not only pay the bills, but also manage them. All this until the earthman Arthur Dent woke up, and the Vogon fleet came to the earth, announcing that the plan to develop the remote areas of the Milky Way needs to build a hyperspace fast channel to pass through the galaxy, and the earth belongs to the scope of being cleared. "You don't need to show panic about this. All cleanup plans have been demonstrated on Centauri Prime for 50 Earth years, and you have plenty of time to make any complaints... what? You haven't been to Centauri Prime? For God's sake For your sake, it’s only 4 light-years away, you know that. I’m sorry.” So, like the execution procedures of many demolition plans, the earth, the most powerful computer in all space and time in the universe, 5 minutes before it was done it was ruined. The "ultimate question about life, the universe, and everything" then disappeared, 42, and lost its meaning.Fortunately, Arthur Dent was rescued at the last moment by his friend Ford, an interstellar rover who was on Earth.The two started a galaxy adventure full of surprises.During the journey, Arthur discovered that towels are the most useful thing in the universe and experienced a new meaning of life. He also found that what he needed to know was originally written in an e-book called "Guide to the Galaxy".