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
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to be Zaphod Beeblebrox. Islington also was the location of the cave in which Arthur lived during Earth's prehistoric period, as described in the third novel. Two million years later, exactly the same spot was the location of Fenchurch's home as described in the fourth novel. Islington is a former home of Douglas Adams, in which he wrote much of the first novel, and drew inspiration from his surroundings; in particular a real estate agent called "Hotblack Desiato", a name he took for a rock musician in the series. A particular love of its creator, the Magrathean Slartibartfast, who eulogises