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        The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


        setting

        Earth, Magrathea

        time

        1970s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1979

        page count

        180

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Vogons

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)