This book is a survey of typical Science Fiction elements in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Christian Erkenbrecher first goes through a short history of Science Fiction and identifies certain motifs of the genre in order to correctly place the novel within a useful context.
Classical elements of the Science Fiction canon are identified in the novel and scrutinized. It becomes clear that Douglas Adams was fully aware of the SF "burden" and we can see how its elements ar ...