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 "Hitchhiker's Guide" is the spelling Adams preferred. At least two reference works make note of the inconsistency in the titles. Both, however, repeat the statement that Adams decided in 2000 that "everyone should spell it the same way [one word, no hyphen] from then on." Notes Bibliography The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic