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: : The climax is another story and the themes are a question for an English Teacher. However as for the plot I can help. : : 'The Hitch hickers guide to the galaxy' (the first book of a 5 book trillogy) : : - Aurther Dents house is about to be demoilshed : : - Ford Prefect (a resercher for the guide from somewhere in the vacinity of betalugese) saves Aurther Dent when the Earth is demolished to make way for a new Hyperspace byp : : - They escape onto a vogon ship : : - They are discovered, exposed to some hideous poetry and thrown out an airlock, with only 30 seconds to survive before asphysication sets in : : - 29 seconds later they are picked up by the infinate improbobability drive ship, the heart of gold : : - This ship was manned by Zaphod Bebblebrox a two headed man who is the now ex president of the galaxy (after having stolen the heart of gold), Trillian another native of Earth that Zaphod had picked up at a party and Marvin a terminaly depresssed android : : - Ford reveals that Zaphod is his semi cousin, and Aurther reveals that he met Zaphod at the party where Zaphod had picked up Trillian and that he had fancied Trillian for quite a bit : : - They all retire to sleep : : - Trillian and Zaphod go to the bridge and discover that they have found the ledgenary planet magrathea, famed in Ledgend for manufacuturing other planets for the extremely rich merchents of the former galatic empire : : - Ford fails to belive either of them but they decend into the atmosphere anyway, now on photon drive. Acording to Zaphod the planet is dead and has been for millions of years : : - Contray to that statement a computer from the surface broadcasts a message at the ship telling them politely to go away. : : - When they do not leave, 2 nuclear missiles fly up from the surface to attack the ship. : : - After a few moments of eratic dodgeing and weaving Aurther decides to turn on the improbability drive. : : - The ship then continues on with a redesigned interoir. The missiles have turned into a bowl of petunias and an innocent whale. : : - They land, find a way underground and the others leave Aurther and Marvin to guard the end of the page : : - Zaphod tells the story of the locked of section of his two brains (which is interesting but not strictly relevent now) : : - They are then gased and lie peacefuly on the floor : : - Aurther Dent meats Slartibatfast the Magrathen coastline designer who won an award for his work on the Fjords of Norway : : - He is then taken in Slartibartfasts aircar to the centre of the planet : : - He then hears that the Earth was built by the Magrathenans as a special request by Mice : : - He then hears the story of the first mission to find the ultimate answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything. The story is intersting but not relevent, suffice to say that the answer was 42 : : - So another even bigger and better computer called 'The Earth' was built to find the ultimate question. It was demolished, by the vogons 5 minutes before the final readout of the question was given : : - Now the magrathens are building a second earth to replace the first one : : - Aurther and Slartibartfast are called to meet some of the leading mice which Trillian had broght with her from Earth : : - They then find Ford, Zaphod and Trillan in a resturant with a very nice meal in front of them. : : - Some mice then apper who discus a deal to buy Aurthers brain of them so they can read his brainwave patterns and find the question. : : - Aurther is somewhat taken aback by the notion that someone wants to remove his brain and stands rigidly still : : - Then every alarm on the planet goes of as a result of a police craft hunting Zaphod had landed. : : - A brief barrage of laser fire from the policemen that was pinning our heros down suddenly stopps : : - Ford steps out and discovers that the policemen (who have to wear spacesuits to survive on this planet) are dead due to their suit computers ing up : : - When they arrive back at the ship they see the police crafts computer (which was linked to the policemens suit computers) had also n up : : - Marvin explained that this is because he had talked to the ship and because if the infectious nature of manic depression, it commited suicide. : : - The heart of gold flees away and they set a course for the Resturant at the end of the universe : : And then the book ends. I hope that has answed some of your Q's

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