I am a fan.
I swallowed whole all of the Hitchhiker books practically the day they were released and, from the first time I saw it, the BBC television production became—and perhaps still is—one my favorite British performances ever. I have a copy of it all on tape somewhere. (Anyone have a working Beta player I [...]

Hiya. I’m Sam. Right now I live in the sheep country in North Yorkshire, UK, where I try to do normal things while corralling a three-year-old and a ten-month-old to a constant soundtrack of They Might Be Giants’s Here Come the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and Here Comes Science. (Seriously, the greatest things ever. [...]

Eons ago, in a dark, moist and musty corner of the Universe, a pool of primordial muck oozed and bubbled and burped, doing all those things that pools of primordial muck are expected to do. Day in and day out the primordial muck went about its business, oozing and bubbling and burping, and it was [...]

Ahoy there, fellow readers.
My name is Jacob, but you can call me Jake, Jakus, or MC Splashypants if for some reason Jacob rubs you the wrong way (and Jacob has done that before, if you know what I’m sayin’ HEY OHHH).
My father is a low-level Hitchhiker’s Guide evangelist, but despite this, my experience with the [...]

We’re only 21 days away from kicking off the Hitchhiker Marathon!
I am pleased to announce that we have a very talented team of contributors ready to dive into the books! It’s a great mix of fans of and newcomers to the series, and it should be exciting to read their reactions as we read our [...]

You might be worried about fitting the reading into your already-busy schedule. Over on the About page, I’ve broken down each week’s reading assignment into manageable chapter chunks. That works out to about three weeks per book. For example, we’ll read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy like this:

Week 1: Chapters 1 – 7
Week 2: Chapters [...]

On October 12, 2009, 30 years after its first publication, we’ll open our copies of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the marathon will begin. Some of us will open well-loved, worn copies with dog-eared, yellowed pages. Some of us will have brand-new copies that make a cracking sound when they are opened for [...]