Life universe and everything 1

Life the Universe and Everything ISBN - - - is the third book in the ?ve-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science ?ction trilogyby British writer Douglas Adams The title refers to the Answer to Life the Universe and Everything The story was originally outlined by Adams as Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen to be a Tom Baker Doctor Who television six- part story but was rejected by the BBC It was later considered as a plotline for the second series of the Hitchhiker's TV series which was never commissioned A radio adaptation of Life the Universe and Everything was recorded in under the guidance of Dirk Maggs starring the surviving members of the cast of the original Hitchhiker's radio series Adams himself at his own suggestion makes a cameo appearance due to his death before production began on the series this was achieved by sampling his character's dialogue from an audio book of the novel read by Adams that was published in the s The radio adaptation debuted on BBC Radio in September Contents Plot summary Origins References to the sport of cricket Censorship Audiobook adaptations References Plot summary edit After being stranded on pre-historic Earth after the events in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Arthur Dent is met by his old friend Ford Prefect who drags him into a space-time eddy represented by an anachronistic sofa The two end up at Lord's Cricket Ground two days before the Earth's destruction by the Vogons Shortly after they arrive a squad of robots land in a spaceship in the middle of the ?eld and attack the assembled crowd stealing The Ashesbefore departing Another spaceship arrives the Starship Bistromath helmed by Slartibartfast who discovers he is too late and requests Arthur and Ford's help As they travel to their next destination Slartibartfast explains that he is trying to stop the robots from collecting all the components of the Wikkit Gate Long ago the peaceful population of the planet of Krikkit unaware of the rest of the Universe due to a dust cloud that surrounded its solar system were surprised to ?nd the wreckage of a spacecraft on their planet Reverse engineering the vessel they explored past the dust cloud and saw the rest of the Universe immediately taking a disliking to it and determining it must go They built a eet of ships and robots to attack the rest of the Universe in a brutal onslaught known as the Krikkit Wars but were eventually defeated Realizing that the Krikkit population would not be satis ?ed alongside the existence of the rest of the Universe it was decided to envelop the system in a Slo-Time envelope allowing Krikkit to survive long after the rest of the universe has ended the Wikkit Gate was the key to the envelope This also explains why Earth is ignored by the rest of the galaxy any species that would turn a memory of a horri ?c war into a sport isn't worth bothering

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