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
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to be Zaphod Beeblebrox. Islington also was the location of the cave in which Arthur lived during Earth's prehistoric period, as described in the third novel. Two million years later, exactly the same spot was the location of Fenchurch's home as described in the fourth novel. Islington is a former home of Douglas Adams, in which he wrote much of the first novel, and drew inspiration from his surroundings; in particular a real estate agent called "Hotblack Desiato", a name he took for a rock musician in the series. A particular love of its creator, the Magrathean Slartibartfast, who eulogises