Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The series is set in a fictionalised version of the Milky Way galaxy and thus, while most locations are pure invention, many are based on "real world" settings such as Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star and various versions of the Earth. "The Galaxy" is our home galaxy, the Milky Way, though it is referred to exclusively as "the Galaxy" in the series. Apart from a very brief moment during the first radio series, when
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy their new home "Fintlewoodlewix" (though obviously the name didn't stick). Earth is widely regarded with derision and scorn by most sentient beings in the galaxy. That most other races have shunned Earth is in part due to its primitive technological state and also for its invention of the game of cricket, an unfortunate product of racial memory that appears to make light of the horrendously genocidal Krikkit Wars, which right-thinking galactic citizens find immensely distasteful. Before the arrival of Ford Prefect and the Vogons, Earth's main form of extraterrestrial contact was with "teasers": bored rich kids who cruise the galaxy