--The Philadelphia Inquirer
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking atthe night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. Theuniverse, that is. Now only five individuals stand between thewhite killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of totalannihilation.
They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, whotries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground andmissing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane tosee if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresidentof the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered byirrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armedex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadetwho is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressedBeeblebrox.
How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows asthey try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we knowit--and don't know it!