The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Magrathea

The planet of Magrathea comes to stand for the kind of merciless greed that all too often plagues civilizations. Magrathea is an ancient planet populated by a species that made itself rich by designing custom-built…

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The Heart of Gold

Because the Heart of Gold spaceship is powered by the “Infinite Improbability Drive,” it naturally represents the strange and “improbable” things that happen in life and, of course, the novel itself. As Trillian and Zaphod

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