Plot summary
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy starts out by telling you about Earth. More so the guide itself. The Guide is a galactic bestseller everywhere but on the planet Earth. Ford Prefect is a field correspondent for the Guide stationed on Earth and fully aware that the Guide has forgotten about him. His best friend is the Earthling Arthur Dent. Arthur's boring life in the West Country is changed one morning when contractors pull up to his house in order to demolish it to make way for a bypass. After making a quick diversion and going to a local bar, Ford alerts him that he is actually from a planet somewhere near Betelgeuse and that they have to get off the planet before it's demolished. An alien race of bureaucrats called Vogons intend to destroy Earth to make way for a "hyperspace bypass".
After escaping onto one of the Vogons' ships with seconds to spare via hitchhiking, and then being read Vogon poetry (the third worst in the known Universe) as a form of torture......

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Title: Dus
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