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
Goalkeeper of the Galaxy enormous spaceship hovers over Earth — this is a stadium, which hosts sports events that resemble soccer but at mind-boggling speeds. The name of the game is cosmoball. When the game is on, the whole world stops in its tracks to watch it. The players are called Athletes. To regular people, they are demigods, for the results of each match determine the fate of the planet. Dzhanik Fayziev, plans to make a blockbuster "Goalkeeper of the Galaxy" about a Russian superhero fighting alien invaders, inspired by Marvel works, Russia Today reports. Fayziev clarified that, according to the plot, people evolved