Hitchhiker's guide to the universe

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

Author- Douglas Adams
publisher- New York: Harmony Books 1980, c1979.

Annotations- A book that starts where most are afraid to end, we begin with the destruction of the earth and things pick up speed from there, the Author Douglas Adams oft considered one of the 21st century's great satirists takes us through an absurd, fast passed, slide splittingly funny look at a universe where humanity is not even a blip on the radar, earth only warrants a two word description in the culmination of all knowledge and humans aren't even rate in the top two spots for smartest creatures on earth.

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2001 a space odyssey

The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight. In this barren and desiccated land, only the small or the swift or the fierce could flourish, or even hope to survive.

author- Arther c Clark
publisher- New York: New American Library c1968

annotations-  from the award-winning author of childhoods end and Rendezvous with Rama comes the inspiration for one of the 20th centuries most groundbreaking film, 2001: a space odyssey. the story starts with a discovery on the moon that humanity has been dreading and hoping for since it first looked into the night sky. the possibility that we may not be alone in the universe sparks a manned mission into the outer reaches of the solar system, but in the deep reaches of space, with a crew of two and an AI named HAL disaster is brewing. a thought-provoking read, descriptively written, with a strong plot and                                                                   great world-building. a true classic.
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