![]() One day the earth is demolished, but Arthur is saved by his friend, the alien Ford Prefect, who Arthur had assumed to be an Earthman like him. Arthur is an earthling-inhabitant of the planet earth. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, on the other hand, goes well beyond science-fiction and insidiously creeps up in your everyday life. But there is one distinguishing factor: Discworld is confined to its genre-fantasy and lampoons many notable fantasy writers and plot-devices. Simply put, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is related in the same way to science-fiction as Discworld is related to fantasy.īoth Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett aim to mock their respective genres. After that, I went into a bit of a decline.” The third ten million years I didn’t enjoy at all. ![]() “The first ten million years were the worst,” said Marvin, “and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. ![]()
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