The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

01 Chapter 1 The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village. It stood on its own and looked over a broad spread of West

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02 Chapter 2 Here’s what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed

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04 Chapter 4 Far away on the opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy, five hundred thousand light years from the star Sol, Zaphod

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06 Chapter 6 “Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle

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07 Chapter 7 Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.

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09 Chapter 9 A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason.

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10 Chapter 10 The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a

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11 Chapter 11 The Improbability-proof control cabin of the Heart of Gold looked like a perfectly conventional spaceship except that it

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12 Chapter 12 A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands

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13 Chapter 13 Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning.

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14 Chapter 14 The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill

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15 Chapter 15 (Excerpt from The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy., Page 634784, Section 5a, Entry: Magrathea)

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16 Chapter 16 Arthur awoke to the sound of argument and went to the bridge. Ford was waving his arms about.

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17 Chapter 17 After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur’s mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shellshocked fragments the

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18 Chapter 18 And the next thing that happened after that was that the Heart of Gold continued on its way perfectly normally with a

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19 Chapter 19 “Are we taking this robot with us?” said Ford, looking with distaste at Marvin who was standing in an awkward hunched

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20 Chapter 20 Five figures wandered slowly over the blighted land. Bits of it were dullish grey, bits of it dullish brown, the rest of it

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21 Chapter 21 On the surface of Magrathea Arthur wandered about moodily.

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22 Chapter 22 He was standing with his back to Arthur watching the very last glimmers of light sink into blackness behind the horizon.

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24 Chapter 24 Silently the aircar coasted through the cold darkness, a single soft glow of light that was utterly alone in the deep

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25 Chapter 25 There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born?

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26 Chapter 26 “Yes, very salutary,” said Arthur, after Slartibartfast had related the salient points of the story to him, “but I don’t

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27 Chapter 27 Slartibartfast’s study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library. The old man frowned as they

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28 Chapter 28 It was a long time before anyone spoke.

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29 Chapter 29 “Zaphod! Wake up!”

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30 Chapter 30 “So there you have it,” said Slartibartfast, making a feeble and perfunctory attempt to clear away some of the appalling

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31 Chapter 31 It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

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32 Chapter 32 “Emergency! Emergency!” blared the klaxons throughout Magrathea. “Hostile ship has landed on planet. Armed intruders

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33 Chapter 33 But the end never came, at least not then.

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34 Chapter 34 The aircar rocketed them at speeds in excess of R17 through the steel tunnels that lead out onto the appalling surface of the

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35 Chapter 35 That night, as the Heart of Gold was busy putting a few light years between itself and the Horsehead Nebula, Zaphod

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