The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a human-like alien writer for the eccentric, electronic travel guide "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by hitchhiking onto a passing Vogon spacecraft. Following his rescue, Dent explores the galaxy with Prefect and encounters Trillian, another human who had been taken from Earth prior to its destruction by the President of the Galaxy, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, and the depressed Marvin, the Paranoid Android. Certain narrative details were changed between the various adaptations. The various versions follow the same basic plot but they are in many places mutually contradictory, as Adams rewrote the story substantially for each new adaptation. Throughout
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This is similar to the book where the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in "The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It was later incorporated into the covers of all five reprinted "Hitchhiker's" novels in the United States. Adams has described the puzzle as depicting the number 42 in ten different ways. Six possible questions are: The number 42 and the phrase, "Life, the universe, and everything" have attained cult status on the Internet. "Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for