The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy President; the depressed robot Marvin the Paranoid Android; and Trillian, formerly known as Tricia McMillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party in Islington and the only other human survivor of Earth's destruction thanks to Beeblebrox' intervention. The first radio series comes from a proposal called "The Ends of the Earth": six self-contained episodes, all ending with Earth's being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realized that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide some context, and that this alien needed a reason to be there. Adams finally settled
Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion is a book by Neil Gaiman about Douglas Adams and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The book was originally published in 1986 in the United States and United Kingdom () by Titan Books. A second edition, retitled "Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was published in the United Kingdom in July 1993, containing additional material by David K. Dickson (). A third edition, with another slight title revision (now known as "Don't Panic: