The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy is a hilarious novel written by Douglas Adams. The main charactor is a human called Arthur Dent who is rescued from the supercomputor Earh. Just after he had been rescued a Vogan ship dimolishes the computor, thinking that it is fact a planet, to make way for a galaxy bypass. Earth's purpose is to discover the quistion of the answer 42 which is the meaning of life. On the ship that saved Arthur Arthur has discovered the computors Heart of Gold, a progam that works out the improbability of something happening, so that it can do it.

  This is a very complex novel, but if you enjoyed it there are three others in the series. Eoin Colfer is corrently writing another one.