Douglas Adams wrote comic science fiction that treats the universe as a place run by bad systems, improbable coincidences and people who rarely understand what is happening. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins when Arthur Dent escapes Earth moments before its destruction and travels with Ford Prefect, an alien researcher for the electronic Guide named in the title. Across the series they encounter characters including Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian and Marvin the Paranoid Android, while questions about the meaning of life sit beside bureaucratic aliens, malfunctioning technology and jokes about language. Adams also wrote the Dirk Gently novels, which turn detective fiction into stories about apparently unrelated events connected by increasingly strange logic. His books are quick, absurd and idea-driven, belonging to comic science fiction and satirical speculative fiction. Terry Pratchett is a useful comparison for readers who like genre stories built as much around jokes and concepts as around plot. Read more Less
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