Life, the Universe, and Everything throws the readers right into the quagmire where we left off after a rather good repast at Miliways (consult book two). Mix and add a dash of salt and you have the recipe for more interstellar hijinks and some Monty Python worthy moments looped into some truly strange, or should I say deranged, side stories. Marvin, the depressed robot, is sadly out of play until an essential intervention at the very end.
That’s when things get even odder than usual with the arrival of the Starship Bistromath, Slartibartfast, and eventually Zaphod and Trillian. Unluckily for Ford Perfect and Arthur Dent, the killbots decide to invade a cricket game that they have just arrived at after some weird adventures and toils to return from solitude and lands of talking bog mattresses. It’s safely locked away from the Krikkiters, or so everyone thinks, until it becomes evident that a rouge ship of killbots is loose outside of the envelop and searching the universe for the gate pieces, intent upon getting the party (read massacre) started all over again. The envelop can only be opened – or should I say unwrapped – by the Wikkit Gate key. Everyone else bands together for the greater good and locks crazy Krikkit in a Slo-Time envelop. Determined to give up their simple singing days to develop the galaxy’s most advanced technology, all for the purpose of space-time travel, the creation of super-efficient killing robots, and some universe level genocide – because the possibility of unannounced guests really does suck – the Krikkiters become a problem at the galaxy scale. The Krikkiters don’t care for the company at all and knowing that the world is just filled with potential visitors, are driven to seek the only answer: a homicidal purge of the galaxy. Once upon a time, long ago and all that stuff, the peaceful planet of Krikkit, fond of singing and stargazing, is unexpectedly met by an off course spaceship. ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everythingīack for a third splash, or should I say thorough soaking, in the fountain of never-ending absurdity, the crew of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxytackle a scientifically advanced spaceship (running on the mathematics specific to restaurant bills) to stop a homicidal far-away planet and along the way they meet living mattresses, a Greek god, a never-ending space party, a vengeful (and particularly unlucky) entity named Agrajag, and the ultimate purveyor of world destruction. Rating: Cricket, Talking Mattresses, and the End of the World (Again)
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