Comedy SF monument 'Galactic Hitchhiking Guide' celebrates '42' anniversary


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Benjamin Balázs

Fans from around the world are celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the ' Galactic Hitchhiking Guide ' , known as the monument to Slapstick SF. A major UK weekly newspaper economist explains how great the 'Galaxy Hitchhiker's Guide' is and what the number '42' is about it.

Of mice and spacemen-“The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 | Prospero | The Economist
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2020/03/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-turns-42

Every year, the world celebrates some kind of anniversary. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven 's birth, the 500th anniversary of Raphael 's death, the 150th anniversary of Dickens ' death, and the 250th anniversary of Worthworth 's birth. In Japan, Eiji Tsuburaya 's death 50 years, Machiko Hasegawa birth 100 years, Yukio Mishima not only a turning point after his death 50 years, Japan World Exposition (Osaka Expo) 50 years from held, 50 years from pedestrian start It is a milestone year of 100 years since Kazuya Kumagai and Seiichiro Kashio won Japan's first Olympic medal.

With almost every anniversary celebrating its 'easy years', the 'Galactic Hitchhiking Guide' series, which started on March 8, 1978, celebrated its 42th anniversary. Macmillan publishers in the UK published a refurbished version of the novel, the British Library held a commemorative event, and BBC Radio 4 rebroadcast the memorable episode 1.

The 'Galaxy Hitchhiking Guide' series started with a radio drama broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in the UK, and has become very popular due to the british jokes and more. His media mix , including novels, TV dramas, games, comics, theater, and films, has earned him international recognition. According to Penguin Books, the novels in the 'Galaxy Hitchhiker's Guide' series have been translated into 35 languages, and have sold over 16 million copies, making them a great seller.



It is from the episodes in the work that such a 'Galactic Hitchhiking Guide' celebrates the halfway anniversary of the '42nd anniversary'. `` Deep Sort '', the second supercomputer in this space-time, calculated ``

the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything '' over 7.5 million years, and found that it was `` 42 '' I derive the numbers. It seems that Deep Sort repeatedly and thoroughly examined and gave the answer of `` 42 '', but when asking the question of why the number is 42, `` Frankly, everyone is the ultimate question The problem is where you didn't know what was. '

The phrase '42' is particularly famous in the 'Galaxy Hitchhiking Guide', and various considerations are being made on the Internet on the question 'Why 42?' Also, a Google search for 'the ultimate answer to questions about life, the universe, and everything' will give you a search result of '42'.



The 'Galactic Hitchhiking Guide' series has fans around the world, and every year on May 25, fans from all over the world celebrate '

Towel Day ' after one verse of the 'Galactic Hitchhiking Guide'. On towel day 2013, the Norwegian airline Kolumbus distributed towels to passengers. In 2015, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti celebrated the towel day by reading a galaxy hitchhiking guide at the International Space Station.




The economist described the appeal of the 'Galaxy Hitchhiker's Guide' series as saying, 'The protagonist, Arthur Dent, is from a rural countryside in the west of England and is destined to escape the destruction of the Earth and float in space. Arthur goes everywhere. In an unlikely event, the author, Douglas Adams , succeeded in drawing this work by removing only the arrogant parts without removing the potentially profound parts inherent in science fiction works.Read You'll be even crazy, and you'll even hear a voice saying, 'You can reflect on this work only if you close it.'

'While the female characters appearing in this work are flimsy, Douglas Adams skillfully describes the vastness of the universe and the size of humans with its brushwork that can be said to be a craftsmanship. The god that exists in the world of Arthur Expresses the opinion of 'sorry for the inconvenience' to creatures, but ironic expressions of such serious subjects are now commonplace in science fiction works 'Said the economist.



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