Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – Paranoid Android Joke, Paranoid Android Joke
Adams knows how to blend satire with Sci-fi, and this is done seamlessly in the critically acclaimed, Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. Not only had this book introduced me to the over the top, subtly-be-damned, satire shown on a grand scale. My favorite Dr. Who episode is like something out of The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy , the main characters arrive in a future New York where thousands of people (Hundreds of thousands?) are stuck in an underground traffic jam that many of them have been stuck in for 40 or more years. It even uses a bit of Sci-fi to explain this ridiculous situation, which of course is semi-bunk. Then there are cat people and giant crabs which live in the fast lane. That’s the kind of stuff I love (The name is Gridlock, I suggest that you watch it.) Parts of it don’t really make sense, but it is showing how situations which are ridiculous now could become even more insane in the future. And Adams revels in this feeling, in the book the Earth is...