Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Although one of the greatest computers in the Universe and able to count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond, it is just an abacus in comparison to Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the Universe. Milliways, also known as The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, can only be visited practically by time travel, as it exists at the end of time and matter. Marvin the Paranoid Android is one character who manages to reach Milliways without the use of time travel, merely by being very patient. One of the restaurant's major attractions is that
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) Stephen Fry as the voice of the "Guide", also employed animations, but in a more minimalist, abstract style. They were animated by Shynola. Adams conceived of the "Guide" while hitchhiking from London to Istanbul in 1971. Drunk and penniless in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, Adams looked up at the stars and then at his stolen copy of "Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe" and thought that someone should write "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe" claimed in its introduction that it was possible to survive in Europe on less than US$25 a week, a claim echoed