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This page is a list of characters in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. The descriptions of the characters are accompanied by information on details about appearances and references to the characters.
Dent is rescued from Earth's destruction by Ford Prefect—a human-like alien writer for the eccentric, electronic travel guide The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—by hitchhiking onto a passing Vogon spacecraft.
Plot. Adams rewrote the story substantially for each new adaptation, however each of the various versions follow the same basic plot. The story follows a human man named Arthur Dent as he narrowly escapes death when his home planet of Earth is blown up by a race of aliens called the Vogons.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Hitchhiker's Wiki as "a wiki dedicated to the comedic science fiction works in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ' s trilogy of six books, written by Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer (as well as its various adaptations) that anyone can edit. It currently has 42 636 articles that must be edited."
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The novel opens with an introduction describing the human race as a primitive and deeply unhappy species, while also introducing an electronic encyclopedia called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which provides information on every planet in the galaxy.
