Marvin the Paranoid Android these diodes." Marvin the Paranoid Android Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship "Heart of Gold". Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's "GPP" (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts was broadcast in 1982. In the first edition a page of dialogue was omitted from Fit the Twelfth. The 25th-anniversary edition reprint corrects this. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts is a book, published in 1985, containing the scripts for the original radio series version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Text present in the original scripts but cut to meet time constraints are printed in italics. This book also includes explanatory footnotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and forewords by Adams and by series