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This is the story of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-Three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid’s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong?, Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes, and Who is this God Person Anyway?
And in many of the more relaxed civilizations on the western rim of the galaxy, the Hitchhiker’s Guide has already suplanted the great Enciclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom because, although it has many omissions, contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the old more pedestrian work in two important ways: first, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.