![]() Illustrator Jonathan Burton has outdone himself with depictions of scenes such as the appalling paradise of Ursa Minor Beta and the captain of the Golgafrinchan regiment having a bath. In his introduction, science-fiction writer Adam Roberts describes The Restaurant at the End of the Universe as ’that rare thing: a sequel that surpasses its original’. He combines entertaining inventions such as Playbeing magazine with original thoughts on everything from politics to evolution. At least their adventures will take them to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, ’one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering’.ĭouglas Adams’s work has been compared to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard and even Lewis Carroll and Jonathan Swift. Fortunately, Zaphod’s great-grandfather (contacted during a séance) succeeds in rescuing the ship and sending Zaphod to the headquarters of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – where the trouble really begins. Arthur asks the ship’s computer to make a cup of tea, which occupies it so completely that it is unable to evade an angry Vogon battleship. They have escaped the Vogons and are on the Heart of Gold spaceship, but it is not long before disaster strikes. ![]() This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.ĭouglas Adams continues his ’trilogy in five parts’ with more on Arthur Dent and his friends. In the beginning the universe was created. How do you write a sequel to a book that begins with the Earth being destroyed by aliens for a galactic expressway Well, that is what Douglas Adams did. ![]()
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