What makes "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglass Adams so important?
The future: we've read a lot about it so far. What makes Hitchhiker's Guide so different? Why does it matter? The scientific parody category of genre has opened my eyes to what it feels like the other sci fi had been trying to teach me about, but couldn't completely send it home until now. A lesson about the future. The genre of sci fi as a whole, though often depicting the future, is often describing the present. It has often forced me to reevaluate the present. Hitchhiker's , though a parody, was no exception. Most obviously, Hitchhiker's taught me to laugh even in a dark present. If the world was ending, why should I sweat the small stuff? Or, alternatively, if the world is ending, I might as well go enjoy the smallest, most mundane little things about life that I can, while I still can. And finally, at the very least, at least I can still say "at least the world isn't about to explode in place of a new interstellar bypass." Hearing about th