The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy1981

The Book:
This is the story of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the Celestial Homecare Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolong Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters "Where God Went Wrong" "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" and "Who is This God Person, Anyway?". And in many of the more relaxed civilizations on the outer eastern rim of the galaxy the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom. For though it has many omissions, contains much that is hypocrofal or at least uwarrently inaccurate it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First is slightly cheaper and secondly it has the words "Don't Panic" inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover. To tell the story of the book it is best to tell the story of some of those whose lives it affected. A Human from the planet Earth was one of them. Though, as our story opens he no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company. His name is Arthur Dent. He is a six-foot tall ape descendant and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his home.