Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He was creator of all the various manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 49.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Synopsis
The second book in Douglas Adams's "trilogy in five parts" picks up with Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian, and the perpetually gloomy robot Marvin still hurtling through a hostile and ridiculous universe. Hungry, hunted, and short on options, they set their sights on Milliways — the Restaurant at the End of the Universe — where diners enjoy a five-star meal while watching all of creation come to its spectacular finale.
Getting there is another matter. Between a stolen spaceship, an encounter with the man who secretly rules the galaxy, and Zaphod's tangled quest to understand his own scrambled memories, the crew stumbles from one cosmic absurdity to the next. Along the way Adams skewers bureaucracy, celebrity, marketing, and the very idea of ruling anything at all.
Sharper and even stranger than its predecessor, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is comic science fiction at its most inventive.
Vibe
Genres
Characters
Arthur DentProtagonist
The last surviving Earthman, still baffled by the galaxy around him.
Ford PrefectSupporting
Arthur's alien friend and Guide researcher.
Zaphod BeeblebroxSupporting
The two-headed ex-President, chasing the secret of who really rules the universe.
MarvinSupporting
The Paranoid Android, brilliant and endlessly despairing.
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Places
Edition
The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseMass Market Paperback, 1987
250 pages
Pocket BooksLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97806716649471st Pocket Books paperback printing (18)5 editions available
