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
Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel is a 1997 novel requested by Adams to be written by Monty Python member Terry Jones as an unofficial tie-in to the video game by the same name. At the center of the galaxy, an unknown civilization is preparing for an event of epic proportions, the launch of the most technologically advanced spaceship ever built - the "Starship Titanic". The ship that cannot possibly go wrong. Based on an idea of a cruise ship starship disaster mentioned by Adams in the novel, "Life, the Universe and Everything". Published