ÒFar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of

the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles

is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-

descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still

think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most

of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these

were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces

of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small

green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and

most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big

mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And

some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no

one should ever have left the oceans.

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly

one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern

less that two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."

It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitch Hiker's

was wonderful. Wonderful perfect quadrophonic sound with

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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)