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His science fiction isn't portentous or full of its own seriousness rather, it is accessible to all readers. He often uses simile, metaphor, incisive irony of all forms, hyperbole, understatement, authorial asides, and more.

Adams is particularly gifted at making his expository, declarative prose crackle with as much humor and inventiveness as his dialogue or the passages written as entries from the Guide. If there is a better way to describe how ships hang in the sky, it has yet to be written. 'The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.' Narrator, 33 Adams does this in order to, again, humble readers but also to get us thinking about just what else might be out there. And, of course, Arthur Dent, the protagonist of the novel, doesn't exactly make the best case for humankind as the best and brightest of the universe. Even the sun is in the 'backwaters' in the 'unfashionable' end and is 'unregarded.' Earth is 'insignificant' and its lifeforms are incredibly 'primitive.' This is humbling information to those who believe that humans are the apotheosis of all creation. The significant thing in this quote, though, is that readers immediately learn that Earth is definitely NOT the symbolic or actual center of the universe. The tone is that of dry, ironic wittiness and will characterize the rest of the novel. This is the opening line of the novel, situated in an introductory segment preceding Chapter 1. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.' Narrator, 1 'Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. This description of space is just one of the many brilliantly dry and ironic descriptions to be found throughout the Guide and serves as a reminder the attainment of knowledge need not be difficult or boring.

It is not hard to read, and it has a casual and wry tone.

It purports to contain information on nearly every subject and is constantly edited and added to. In fact, if you think about the Hitchhiker’s Guide as the oft-unacknowledged father of Wikipedia, you get a fairly accurate read on how it is written, as well as how it is used by the characters. The guide that gives The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy its title is very much a character in the book. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.'” The Guide, 76 You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

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