Marvin the Paranoid Android these diodes." Marvin the Paranoid Android Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship "Heart of Gold". Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's "GPP" (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the Primary Phase). Two omnibus editions were created by Douglas Adams to combine the Hitchhiker series novels and to "set the record straight". The stories came in so many different formats that Adams stated that every time he told it he would contradict himself. Therefore, he stated in the introduction of "The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide" that "anything I put down wrong here is, as far as I'm concerned, wrong for good." The two omnibus editions were "The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, Complete and Unabridged" (published in 1987) and "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, Complete and Unabridged" (published in