The extraordinary story of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy begins very simply. It begins with a man. An Earthman, to be precise, who no more knows his destiny, than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company. His name is Arthur Dent, he is a five-foot-eight-inch tall ape descendant and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his house.

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