Life, the universe and everything else

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Life, the Universe and Everything is a 1982 as the third part of the five-part Hitchhiker series published novel by Douglas Adams (AKA Life, the Universe and Everything ).

The plot was originally written by Douglas Adams as a script for an episode for the Doctor Who series. The BBC , for which Adams worked as a writer, rejected the story. The title is derived from the question that was asked of the computer Deep Thought in the first hitchhiker's novel.

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The plot follows on from the second part of the hitchhiker, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe . Arthur Dent is stranded on prehistoric earth and lives alone in a cave after his friend Ford Prefect goes on an extensive wandering.

The day Arthur decides to just go crazy, Ford surprisingly shows up again. Together they travel through the space-time continuum into the future with the help of a sofa and land in London , on the Lord's Cricket Ground , where the decisive Ashes game is currently taking place, just a few days before the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons . You will witness a bloody attack by a robot army and encounter general chaos on Slartibartfaß. He asks you to accompany him on board his ship and help him to save the universe.

On board, Slartibartfaß tells the two of them the story of the planet Krikkit . This is shielded from the rest of the universe by a cosmic cloud of dust , so that the inhabitants believe they are alone. After learning of the existence of other life through a crashed spaceship , they decided to adapt reality to their worldview by simply destroying the rest of the universe.

This was the beginning of the Krikkit Wars, in which the Krikkit robot army could only be defeated after many bloody battles. As a result, the entire planet was enclosed in a time bubble by the highest galactic judge Pag, which was only to burst after the end of the known universe. According to the clerk to the Pag judiciary, the Krikkit wars lasted about two thousand years and claimed two " grilled ions " victims.

The universe was lastingly traumatized by the events, so that the term Krikkit is stored in the collective unconscious and appears again and again in different cultures with different meanings. On earth, this is the case with the British sport of cricket .

However, a single warship of the robot armada managed to escape. This is now looking for the components of the wicket gate, the key to the time bubble, in order to free its builders. As a result, the three try to prevent the robots from getting hold of the other parts of the key, but each time they fail. On the way, they meet Trillian at a party , who joins them. Arthur is learning to fly .

As a last resort to stop the disaster, their only option is to travel to Krikkit. There they find out that the dust cloud that envelops the planet is in fact the remains of a supercomputer called Haktar, which was once created by the Silastic weapon devils of Striterax to build the ultimate weapon. Haktar then designed a bomb that was supposed to turn all the suns in the universe into a supernova at the same time , but made a mistake because he dreaded his own invention. The gun devils had little understanding and pulverized Haktar.

However, this was so developed that it still retained function and memory even as a cloud of dust. Remorseful for his failure, he began manipulating the peaceful Krikkiter so that they would task him again with the invention of the ultimate weapon so that he could correct his mistake.

After the planet was included in the time bubble, however, Haktar lost his influence on the Krikkites, whose originally peace-loving creatures then regained the upper hand.

Without the support of the population, Haktar is no longer able to implement his plan. Although he still tries to slip the bomb on someone who is ignorant and detonate it, since he chooses Arthur of all people, he fails with this too.

The universe is saved, Trillian hunts Zaphod and Arthur settles on Krikkit to work on his flying skills.

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  1. ↑ MJ Simpson: Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . 2002, ISBN 1-84023-501-2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  • The restaurant at the end of the universe  • Life, the universe and all the rest  • Take care and thank you for the fish  • Rupert and back  • And something else, by the way… (posthumously by Eoin Colfer )