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"The unhappy inhabitants of the planet, Krikkit, are sick of looking at the same night sky every night, so the decide to destroy it. In other words, they intend to destroy the galaxy. Only five individuals stand in between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Aurther Dent, a space and time hitchhiker, who happens to be the second to last earthling alive, who also tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing. Ford Prefect, Author's best friend who is from Beetle Juice 5, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it. Slartibartfast, the vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior, ex-employee of Magrathya. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed three-armed ex-president of the universe. And Trillion, a sexy hitchhiker (who happens to come from earth)."
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 30%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%

Tone of book - humorous or laughable
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Parody Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male Alien
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - unemployed
Eccentric: Yes - wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Genius (really!)
Physique - very athletic

Setting
Terrain - Jungle - Water - Mountains - Forests - Space, need spacesuit
Earth setting: - dinosaur times
Spaceship setting: - alien spaceship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - inhabited by friendly aliens - unfriendly aliens - neutral aliens
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
Not Earth, in Solar System? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - the book is simply packed with technical jargon
How much dialogue? - mostly dialog

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