The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase Pdf, Epub, Ebook

THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: QUANDARY PHASE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK

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He walks to the centre of the cricket pitch, and asks to be given the Ashes saying that they are "vitally important for the past, present and future safety of the Galaxy". Another spaceship arrives. Eleven white robots, carrying bats, and wearing rocket pads on their shins dressed like cricketers , come suddenly out, and start attacking the spectators and players with their bats, using them to hit grenade-like explosives at the humans present. They take the Ashes, say "we declare", and go back into their ship. Ford and Arthur catch a lift with Slartibartfast on his ship. Meanwhile, Marvin is once again making conversation with a mattress. A similar ship to before arrives, and white robots get out and take Marvin's one remaining leg. After a brief while, they return and decide to take all of Marvin instead. Investigating further, they discover that the Krikkitmen, a previously peaceful people, built their first spaceship in a year, after a spaceship landed on their planet. The planet and its sun had been previously obscured in a dust cloud that left the Krikkitmen unaware of the existence or even possibility of existence of stars. It is considered remarkable that they constructed a working ship in just a year. After they saw the rest of the universe existed, they decided to annihilate it. Meanwhile, on the Heart of Gold , Zaphod Beeblebrox hears the noise of thousands of people saying "Wop". He intercepts them on the bridge, where he is told they want the "Golden Bail", the ship's Infinite Improbability Drive. They take it, shoot him, and leave. Pag's sentence is that Krikkit will be locked in an envelope of "Slo-Time", until the universe has ended, when it will be released, thus saving the universe from attack from Krikkit, and allowing Krikkit to exist in isolation after the end of the universe. However, a Krikkit ship escaped. Slartibartfast notes that parts of the key to the Wikkit Gate, sealing the envelope of Slo-Time, have been re-appearing. After a failed attempt to recover the Wooden Pillar the Ashes , Slartibartfast plans to go to a party, to locate the Silver Bail. Ford disagrees with this objective but agrees with the concept of going to a party. They teleport from the ship. The episode ends on a cliff-hanger, with the previously unintroduced character of Agrajag saying "Bet you weren't expecting to see me again. The episode includes several Guide interludes, notably the story of Lallafa the poet, and a description of Brockian Ultra-Cricket. The episode begins with Arthur, who has been "diverted" by Agrajag, who claims that Arthur has killed previous incarnations of him hundreds of times. He also claims to have been the bowl of petunias that materialised into existence in Fit the Third. Eventually it transpires one of the deaths was at Stavromula Beta, where someone tried to assassinate Arthur, and he ducked, hitting Agrajag. Arthur however has never been there. Agrajag cries "I've brought you here too zarking soon", but decides to attempt to kill Arthur anyway. Arthur and Agrajag struggle, and Agrajag dies. Arthur escapes from the Cathedral of Hate, to which he had been diverted, by running into a passageway in the mountain. He notes that he has somehow ended up with the wrong bag—one he lost on Earth many years ago. He trips, and falls, only to discover that he is flying. He experiments with flying for a while, only to be hit in the small of the back by the party which Ford and Slartibartfast are attempting to enter. The party is flying as well, and Ford and Slartibartfast are on a ledge around the building, not being permitted entry due to the lack of a bottle. Arthur remembers that his bag contains a bottle of Retsina , and this gets them entry. They see Trillian and Thor at the party, where Thor is chatting Trillian up. Before they are actually able to find it, the Krikkit robots appear, massacre the party-goers and take the Silver Bail. Arthur tricks Thor into walking out of the building by challenging him to fight, leaving Trillian with no choice but to come with them. The Krikkitmen now have all the parts of the Wikkit Key, and Slartibartfast notes that their next move must be to go to the Wikkit Gate itself and try to intervene. The episode opens with a Guide entry about the Silastic Armorfiends, a very aggressive species, who apparently were the first race ever to shock a computer, by asking it Hactar to design the "Ultimate Weapon". Hactar designed one, a small bomb which would destroy every sun in the universe by connecting them in hyperspace. However, it turned out to be a dud, because Hactar had decided that any possible consequence of making it a dud would be better than it actually being used. The Silastic Armorfiends were unimpressed with this and destroyed Hactar, and later themselves. They arrive at the asteroid, but too late to do anything but watch. The Krikkit robots place the key into the Wikkit Gate, revealing Krikkit. As the robots from the escaped Krikkit ship leave their ship, they notice that Zaphod Beeblebrox is with them, who gets knocked out by the Krikkitmen, who then proceed to actually destroy the lock. Zaphod explains that they had brought him on their ship, but had not killed him; but not for any obvious reason. Zaphod comes with the others on Slartibartfast's ship, where Slartibartfast announces that they have no choice but to go down to the surface of Krikkit. Arthur had recovered two items—the Golden Bail, in order to allow the Heart of Gold to work once more, and more importantly, the Ashes of the Wooden Pillar. Zaphod returns to the Heart of Gold , and asks Trillian whether she wishes to come with him—she declines. Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Slartibartfast finally land on Krikkit, where they notice that there are hundreds of floating buildings and warships above the surface. They are soon apprehended by some Krikkitmen, who ask them if they are aliens. The Krikkitmen ask them about the " balance of nature ". They express concern that the plan of universal destruction would upset the balance of nature, and also would stop them from having sporting links with the rest of the Galaxy. The leader of the group, in private, explains to Trillian they have a bomb, that can destroy everything that exists, and cries about this. Aware of the cliche, Trillian asks him to "take me to your leader", who resides "up there" in the sky, far away from the Krikkitmen on the surface. Meanwhile, the others notice that the Heart of Gold is visible in the war zones above the planet. Zaphod sneaks into one of the floating buildings, where he finds the original starship that crash-landed on Krikkit. He recognises it instantly as a fake, designed to teach a non-spacefaring race how spaceships work. He later overhears a conversation between two Krikkit officers, and that apparently the robots are getting depressed and do fiendishly difficult quadratic equations instead of fighting. The episode ends with Zaphod over-hearing Marvin sing a depressing song. Ford, Arthur and Slartibartfast are on the surface of Krikkit, prisoners of the Krikkitmen, and waiting for Trillian to get back, or for Zaphod to do something. Zaphod has discovered Marvin, who since he was stolen by the Krikkit robots, has been plugged into the Krikkit mainframe and is being used as its central computer, hence depressing the robots, and making them unable to kill Zaphod. Trillian is explaining that Krikkit's history is a sequence of contrived coincidences that was set up in order to provoke a race into wanting to destroy the universe. She points out their ultimate weapon, the supernova bomb, would destroy Krikkit as well, and that they ought to know that if they'd built it themselves instead of taking instructions from Hactar. A robot independent from Marvin detonates the bomb, only for it to turn out to be a dud. A pocket of pseudo-gravity has opened with an oxygen atmosphere, and Arthur and Trillian exit the airlock into it. There, they meet Hactar, who explains that when the Silastic Armorfiends tried to destroy him, they failed, and because of his cellular nature, he was eventually able to coalesce sufficiently to influence things. In the long years he grew to regret his decision to make the bomb a dud. He created the dust cloud around Krikkit and also the fake wrecked spacecraft that provoked them to develop spaceflight. He knows they are going to destroy them, and they do. His final words are "I have fulfilled my function They have in the mean-time picked up a man named Prak, who was a witness at a trial when the Krikkit robots broke in and stole the Perspex Pillar. The robots jogged the arm of the person administering him truth drugs, and he took a huge overdose. He was then told to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"—a horrifying fate. The court-house was abandoned, with him in place. He has apparently stopped telling it "there not nearly as much of it as people imagine" , but is still finding much of it, particularly frogs and Arthur Dent, hilarious. They ask him if he knows the Question to the Ultimate Answer of He explains that knowledge of the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive and that if both were to be known the universe would be replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable. However, he does have the address of God's Last Message to his Creation, which he gives to them, but before Arthur is able to take down the address, Prak dies. In the destruction, Arthur is unable to find anyone to return the Ashes to. He notes that he is at Lord's, and one of his ambitions was always to bowl at Lord's. He still has the ball he caught last time he was there, he decides to bowl the ball at the batsman standing at the wicket. Mid-run, Ford points out that "it's not an England batsman, it's a Krikkit robot", and that the ball is probably a supernova bomb, and not a dud. He finds himself unable to stop running and bowls anyway. It goes wide, and Ford catches the ball, the universe being saved by Arthur's poor bowling. Arthur decapitates the robot with its own bat, and then expresses his desire for a cup of tea. The names for these series were chosen because they sound "less daunting, more memorable and are a bit easier to spell" than the standard terms quaternary and quinary. While these were treated as the fourth and fifth Hitchhiker's Guide radio series, they were broadcast in one eight-week stretch in May and June The manner of broadcasting these episodes carries over from the Tertiary Phase: the original broadcast was on Tuesday, with a Thursday repeat with the exception of Fit the Nineteenth, which was not repeated due to election coverage. The CDs contain material not present in the original transmissions, due to time constraints. A 2-CD release of the "Quintessential Phase" was released in mid-June , with similar material left out of the original transmissions, and notes in the booklet by the same four individuals. Arthur moons and swoons through most of the story, but little else, almost as if Adams was feeling sorry for all the trouble he'd been put through or, I suspect, he was tired of writing the character. This Phase of the radio drama is considerably shorter than pr This feels like a romantic comedy shoe-horned into the "Hitchhicker's" universe. This Phase of the radio drama is considerably shorter than previous entries, and ends on something of a cliffhanger: the only real drama in this mostly harmless entry. Jun 06, Laura rated it really liked it. In which Arthur returns to Earth finds love. WAIT wasn't Earth destroyed??? And yet here Earth is. Even though Arthur has been gone for years only months have passed. Arthur investigates this confusion and searches for others who experience this. Not as funny as previous audio products but still better than the book. Jan 25, Maura rated it liked it Shelves: scifi. Feb 17, Anna rated it liked it Shelves: audio. This one must have been written a lot more recently than the first ones. They talk about "cell phones" a lot. Why not "mobile phones," though? I thought British people called them "mobiles. Apr 12, Min rated it really liked it. This adventure was closer to the spirit of the original book. An odd, improbable journey, without over-complicating the strange, or the illogical. The story is told in a much more straight-forward way than the Tertiary episode. Easy to follow, and charming. Likes: These really are a lot of fun. Think Monty Python with jokes about modern physics. Dislikes: Kind of specific in appeal. Apr 22, Clara rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , recommended , infinite-rereadables , influences , scifi , quite-funny , great-readers. Spectacular - listening to the whole BBC audio series far outstrips even the pleasure of reading the books. Aug 02, David Grimaud rated it really liked it Shelves: humor. A continuation of the theme. The gags stay with you. I love the "truck driver as rain god. Dec 03, Carly Svamvour rated it really liked it. I like this one. The audio I listened to is better - it tells this part of the story in a much noisier way - not as distracting as the others. Jun 19, Annmarie rated it it was ok Shelves: audiobooks-listened-with-ears , I made it through all of the radio plays. Didn't enjoy them quite as much as I thought I would. The performances were excellent, but I don't know, the stories just didn't grab me. Jul 09, kimyunalesca rated it really liked it Shelves: Nov 02, Steven rated it liked it Shelves: british , science-fiction , comedy. Not as funny as the other Hitchhiker's plays but still funnier than almost anything else Feb 13, Veronica Smyth rated it liked it. It was an okay book. I do want to read the first book as I think some of the enjoyment from this one was lost in reading the books out of order. A fun audiobook, bubble gum for the mind. Do read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" first or you won't get all the weird references needed to understand what is going on. Jun 26, Tina rated it it was amazing Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy , humour , own. Absolutely fantastic!! Mar 26, Bonnie Dale Keck rated it it was amazing. Have saw the serial and the movies and read the books individually and as omnibus and different sets, hardback, still in my library, says a lot. Date wrong, just saw it to review. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Dent returns to his cottage and tries to resume normal life. But an encounter with a striking woman named Fenchurch leads to a series of unanswered questions. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Sign in. Log into your account. Quandary Phase | Hitchhikers | Fandom

I'd hesitate to call this a waste of time but it shows a creative lull in Adams writing and it's also a bad, uncommitted adaptation of the material which seeks neither to understand or expand upon it. The Rain God is very amusing. This fourth phase was always going to feel a little rushed after they reduced it to 4 episodes rather than 6; however they manage to do the story So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish justice. We continue to follow the adventures of Arthur Dent as he finds the Earth has miraculously not been destroyed by the Vogon constructor fleet. Back on Earth he falls in love, wonders where all the dolphins went, and begins a quest to find God's final message. Oh, and more importantly, we have a final encoun This fourth phase was always going to feel a little rushed after they reduced it to 4 episodes rather than 6; however they manage to do the story So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish justice. Oh, and more importantly, we have a final encounter with Marvin the Paranoid Android. I listened to this via Audible. The fourth part of the Hitchhiker's Guide radio play covers a lot of ground since our protagonists saved the universe previously. It turns out that the Earth isn't blown up, and Arthur Dent makes his way back to it. Comedy, hijinks, and love-making ensue. It's a nice departure and sees a bit of a shift in tone, which isn't a bad thing by any means. I enjoyed it a great deal and look forward to the next part! If you're still reading these reviews and not listening to I listened to this via Audible. If you're still reading these reviews and not listening to the production, I'm not sure what it will take to make that happen. But you should! Apr 06, Alan rated it really liked it. Rating between 3. Jan 24, Jim Mason rated it it was amazing. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is probably my favorite series or the radio play. When I was younger and first reading Hitchhiker's I have to admit I had a huge crush on Fenchurch and was devastated by her disappearance at the end. Feb 12, Leanne rated it really liked it Shelves: audiobook. Still as crazy as ever. Life is like a grapefruit. We apologize for the inconvenience. Sep 07, Markus rated it liked it Shelves: sci-fi , humor. Somehow, they really fucked with the romance's pacing and it feels very wrong to me. Sep 04, Sytze Hiemstra rated it really liked it. The fourth series of the radio version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is based on the fourth novel, whereas the first two novels were based upon the first two radio series. Oct 19, Michael rated it liked it Shelves: audio-book , read-in This one is funny and amusing, but the weaknesses inherint in the book are on display here—namely too much focus on Arthur. This radio adapation does slim things down a bit and it does have some absurdly funny moments that work better in audio than they do in print. Jul 12, Michael Clemens rated it it was ok. This feels like a romantic comedy shoe-horned into the "Hitchhicker's" universe. Adams essentially hit the giant "reset" switch on many of the events from the first story here, losing the general lunatic tone and style of the original. Arthur moons and swoons through most of the story, but little else, almost as if Adams was feeling sorry for all the trouble he'd been put through or, I suspect, he was tired of writing the character. This Phase of the radio drama is considerably shorter than pr This feels like a romantic comedy shoe-horned into the "Hitchhicker's" universe. This Phase of the radio drama is considerably shorter than previous entries, and ends on something of a cliffhanger: the only real drama in this mostly harmless entry. Jun 06, Laura rated it really liked it. In which Arthur returns to Earth finds love. WAIT wasn't Earth destroyed??? And yet here Earth is. Even though Arthur has been gone for years only months have passed. Arthur investigates this confusion and searches for others who experience this. Not as funny as previous audio products but still better than the book. Jan 25, Maura rated it liked it Shelves: scifi. Feb 17, Anna rated it liked it Shelves: audio. This one must have been written a lot more recently than the first ones. They talk about "cell phones" a lot. Why not "mobile phones," though? I thought British people called them "mobiles. Apr 12, Min rated it really liked it. This adventure was closer to the spirit of the original book. An odd, improbable journey, without over-complicating the strange, or the illogical. The story is told in a much more straight-forward way than the Tertiary episode. Easy to follow, and charming. Likes: These really are a lot of fun. Think Monty Python with jokes about modern physics. Dislikes: Kind of specific in appeal. Apr 22, Clara rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , recommended , infinite-rereadables , influences , scifi , quite-funny , great-readers. Spectacular - listening to the whole BBC audio series far outstrips even the pleasure of reading the books. Aug 02, David Grimaud rated it really liked it Shelves: humor. A continuation of the theme. The gags stay with you. I love the "truck driver as rain god. Dec 03, Carly Svamvour rated it really liked it. I like this one. The audio I listened to is better - it tells this part of the story in a much noisier way - not as distracting as the others. Jun 19, Annmarie rated it it was ok Shelves: audiobooks-listened-with-ears , I made it through all of the radio plays. Didn't enjoy them quite as much as I thought I would. The performances were excellent, but I don't know, the stories just didn't grab me. Jul 09, kimyunalesca rated it really liked it Shelves: Nov 02, Steven rated it liked it Shelves: british , science-fiction , comedy. Not as funny as the other Hitchhiker's plays but still funnier than almost anything else Alison Pettitt Hooker …. Fiona Carew Vogon Helmsman …. Chris Emmett Vogon Captain …. Toby Longworth Announcer …. John Marsh. See all episodes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A brief history of the Guide - from radio to stage to page to TV to film and back! He's the last man left alive, but in many ways he's so much less. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Home Episodes Clips Appendices Game. Main content. Sorry, this episode is not currently available. Show more. Written by Douglas Adams The Book …. Show less. Last on. Sun 7 Jun BBC Radio 4 Extra.

BBC Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Quandary Phase, Fit the Nineteenth Arthur however has never been there. Agrajag cries "I've brought you here too zarking soon", but decides to attempt to kill Arthur anyway. Arthur and Agrajag struggle, and Agrajag dies. Arthur escapes from the Cathedral of Hate, to which he had been diverted, by running into a passageway in the mountain. He notes that he has somehow ended up with the wrong bag—one he lost on Earth many years ago. He trips, and falls, only to discover that he is flying. He experiments with flying for a while, only to be hit in the small of the back by the party which Ford and Slartibartfast are attempting to enter. The party is flying as well, and Ford and Slartibartfast are on a ledge around the building, not being permitted entry due to the lack of a bottle. Arthur remembers that his bag contains a bottle of Retsina , and this gets them entry. They see Trillian and Thor at the party, where Thor is chatting Trillian up. Before they are actually able to find it, the Krikkit robots appear, massacre the party-goers and take the Silver Bail. Arthur tricks Thor into walking out of the building by challenging him to fight, leaving Trillian with no choice but to come with them. The Krikkitmen now have all the parts of the Wikkit Key, and Slartibartfast notes that their next move must be to go to the Wikkit Gate itself and try to intervene. The episode opens with a Guide entry about the Silastic Armorfiends, a very aggressive species, who apparently were the first race ever to shock a computer, by asking it Hactar to design the "Ultimate Weapon". Hactar designed one, a small bomb which would destroy every sun in the universe by connecting them in hyperspace. However, it turned out to be a dud, because Hactar had decided that any possible consequence of making it a dud would be better than it actually being used. The Silastic Armorfiends were unimpressed with this and destroyed Hactar, and later themselves. They arrive at the asteroid, but too late to do anything but watch. The Krikkit robots place the key into the Wikkit Gate, revealing Krikkit. As the robots from the escaped Krikkit ship leave their ship, they notice that Zaphod Beeblebrox is with them, who gets knocked out by the Krikkitmen, who then proceed to actually destroy the lock. Zaphod explains that they had brought him on their ship, but had not killed him; but not for any obvious reason. Zaphod comes with the others on Slartibartfast's ship, where Slartibartfast announces that they have no choice but to go down to the surface of Krikkit. Arthur had recovered two items—the Golden Bail, in order to allow the Heart of Gold to work once more, and more importantly, the Ashes of the Wooden Pillar. Zaphod returns to the Heart of Gold , and asks Trillian whether she wishes to come with him—she declines. Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Slartibartfast finally land on Krikkit, where they notice that there are hundreds of floating buildings and warships above the surface. They are soon apprehended by some Krikkitmen, who ask them if they are aliens. The Krikkitmen ask them about the " balance of nature ". They express concern that the plan of universal destruction would upset the balance of nature, and also would stop them from having sporting links with the rest of the Galaxy. The leader of the group, in private, explains to Trillian they have a bomb, that can destroy everything that exists, and cries about this. Aware of the cliche, Trillian asks him to "take me to your leader", who resides "up there" in the sky, far away from the Krikkitmen on the surface. Meanwhile, the others notice that the Heart of Gold is visible in the war zones above the planet. Zaphod sneaks into one of the floating buildings, where he finds the original starship that crash-landed on Krikkit. He recognises it instantly as a fake, designed to teach a non-spacefaring race how spaceships work. He later overhears a conversation between two Krikkit officers, and that apparently the robots are getting depressed and do fiendishly difficult quadratic equations instead of fighting. The episode ends with Zaphod over- hearing Marvin sing a depressing song. Ford, Arthur and Slartibartfast are on the surface of Krikkit, prisoners of the Krikkitmen, and waiting for Trillian to get back, or for Zaphod to do something. Zaphod has discovered Marvin, who since he was stolen by the Krikkit robots, has been plugged into the Krikkit mainframe and is being used as its central computer, hence depressing the robots, and making them unable to kill Zaphod. Trillian is explaining that Krikkit's history is a sequence of contrived coincidences that was set up in order to provoke a race into wanting to destroy the universe. She points out their ultimate weapon, the supernova bomb, would destroy Krikkit as well, and that they ought to know that if they'd built it themselves instead of taking instructions from Hactar. A robot independent from Marvin detonates the bomb, only for it to turn out to be a dud. A pocket of pseudo-gravity has opened with an oxygen atmosphere, and Arthur and Trillian exit the airlock into it. There, they meet Hactar, who explains that when the Silastic Armorfiends tried to destroy him, they failed, and because of his cellular nature, he was eventually able to coalesce sufficiently to influence things. In the long years he grew to regret his decision to make the bomb a dud. He created the dust cloud around Krikkit and also the fake wrecked spacecraft that provoked them to develop spaceflight. He knows they are going to destroy them, and they do. His final words are "I have fulfilled my function They have in the mean-time picked up a man named Prak, who was a witness at a trial when the Krikkit robots broke in and stole the Perspex Pillar. The robots jogged the arm of the person administering him truth drugs, and he took a huge overdose. He was then told to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"—a horrifying fate. The court-house was abandoned, with him in place. He has apparently stopped telling it "there not nearly as much of it as people imagine" , but is still finding much of it, particularly frogs and Arthur Dent, hilarious. They ask him if he knows the Question to the Ultimate Answer of He explains that knowledge of the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive and that if both were to be known the universe would be replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable. However, he does have the address of God's Last Message to his Creation, which he gives to them, but before Arthur is able to take down the address, Prak dies. In the destruction, Arthur is unable to find anyone to return the Ashes to. He notes that he is at Lord's, and one of his ambitions was always to bowl at Lord's. He still has the ball he caught last time he was there, he decides to bowl the ball at the batsman standing at the wicket. Mid-run, Ford points out that "it's not an England batsman, it's a Krikkit robot", and that the ball is probably a supernova bomb, and not a dud. He finds himself unable to stop running and bowls anyway. It goes wide, and Ford catches the ball, the universe being saved by Arthur's poor bowling. Arthur decapitates the robot with its own bat, and then expresses his desire for a cup of tea. The names for these series were chosen because they sound "less daunting, more memorable and are a bit easier to spell" than the standard terms quaternary and quinary. While these were treated as the fourth and fifth Hitchhiker's Guide radio series, they were broadcast in one eight-week stretch in May and June The manner of broadcasting these episodes carries over from the Tertiary Phase: the original broadcast was on Tuesday, with a Thursday repeat with the exception of Fit the Nineteenth, which was not repeated due to election coverage. The CDs contain material not present in the original transmissions, due to time constraints. A 2-CD release of the "Quintessential Phase" was released in mid-June , with similar material left out of the original transmissions, and notes in the booklet by the same four individuals. Arthur discovers that the entry for "Earth" in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which formerly had been edited down to "Mostly Harmless", has been replaced, with Ford's original full version. They head towards Earth independently, Arthur arriving first. After landing in a field in Somerset, Arthur tries to hike a lift to Cottington, to see if his house still exists. Along the way, he meets Rob McKenna, a man who complains about the rain, before realising he has hitched a lift the wrong way. He gets out, and gets a lift with Russell, whose sister, Fenchurch, is out cold on a back seat of the car. Arthur is instantly smitten, and asks about her. Russell claims that she is mad, and has been ever since "the hallucinations"—the Vogon Constructor Fleet. On the Constructor Fleet, a junior crew member notices that Earth has re-appeared. He is overridden by the captain, Jeltz, who declares that he saw it destroyed himself. Meanwhile, Ford is stuck in a bar with a large bill, which he avoids paying by promising to write an entry for the bar in the Guide. On the streets, he is asked by a hooker whether he is "rich", and says that he might be—being owed several years back pay for writing two words. He shows the two words—"Mostly Harmless"—to the hooker, and is shocked to see the guide updating this to his full entry. He decides to go to Earth himself. Arthur arrives at his house, finding it undemolished and the phone ringing. He is unable to get to the phone before it rings off. The contents of the house are as he left them, apart from a large pile of junk mail just inside the front door, and a strange bowl, bearing the inscription "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish". He phones his boss at the BBC to explain that he has been absent due to going mad and would return to work when hedgehogs come out of hibernation plus a few minutes to have a shave. Driving, he encounters Fenchurch again, and gives her a lift to the train station, saying that he has something he wants to tell her. At the station pub they attempt to engage in conversation, but are interrupted by someone offering raffle tickets. Fenchurch has to leave to catch her train, and leaves her phone number on a ticket—with which Arthur then wins the raffle. Distraught, Arthur decides to find the Islington cave that he spent some years in during prehistoric times. He knocks on a few doors in Islington near where he thinks that cave was, firstly calling at Friends of the World. When there he attempts to make a donation to "save the dolphins" but is met with mockery from the "Ecological Man" played by David Dixon , Ford Prefect from the television series. There is a brief allusion to the TV series as Arthur asks if they've met before. The next door he knocks on is Fenchurch's. She is surprised that he didn't call first, shows him his misplaced copy of the Guide, and notes that they need to talk. Get A Copy. Audio CD , Dramatization edition; unabridged. More Details Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Possibly my favorite phase, slightly more down to Earth than other installments, but I absolutely adore Fenchurch. Feb 23, Ian Lepine rated it it was amazing. The Quandary Phase has the lowest rating of the whole series, but most scientists have come to the conclusion that this opinion is based on three things: ignorance stupidity nothing else. The only problem with it is that it's shorter than the other phases, but it makes up by containing some of the most memorable passages of the whole series, like God's final message to his creation, written in fire in letters thirty feet high on the far side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeu The Quandary Phase has the lowest rating of the whole series, but most scientists have come to the conclusion that this opinion is based on three things: ignorance stupidity nothing else. The only problem with it is that it's shorter than the other phases, but it makes up by containing some of the most memorable passages of the whole series, like God's final message to his creation, written in fire in letters thirty feet high on the far side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet of Preliumtarn, which orbits the star Zarss, which is located in the Grey Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people. Jan 08, Alex rated it it was ok Shelves: science-fiction , radio-drama. I think that a lot of the problem with this adaptation by Dirk Maggs was in reducing the episode count from 6 to 4 which doesn't allow time for the story to breathe. But then, is there really a story anyway? Is there even a central concept or idea to this or is it just an attempt to find something for the Hitchhiker's characters to do, throwing in a Hitchhiker's I always remembered So Long and Thanks For All the Fish as being the weakest of the trilogy, but I didn't remember it being this weak. Is there even a central concept or idea to this or is it just an attempt to find something for the Hitchhiker's characters to do, throwing in a Hitchhiker's concept like "the search for God's final message" which just doesn't work in nearly as interesting ways as the original search for meaning in the universe did. I'd hesitate to call this a waste of time but it shows a creative lull in Adams writing and it's also a bad, uncommitted adaptation of the material which seeks neither to understand or expand upon it. The Rain God is very amusing. This fourth phase was always going to feel a little rushed after they reduced it to 4 episodes rather than 6; however they manage to do the story So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish justice. We continue to follow the adventures of Arthur Dent as he finds the Earth has miraculously not been destroyed by the Vogon constructor fleet. Back on Earth he falls in love, wonders where all the dolphins went, and begins a quest to find God's final message. Oh, and more importantly, we have a final encoun This fourth phase was always going to feel a little rushed after they reduced it to 4 episodes rather than 6; however they manage to do the story So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish justice. Oh, and more importantly, we have a final encounter with Marvin the Paranoid Android. I listened to this via Audible. The fourth part of the Hitchhiker's Guide radio play covers a lot of ground since our protagonists saved the universe previously. It turns out that the Earth isn't blown up, and Arthur Dent makes his way back to it. Comedy, hijinks, and love-making ensue. It's a nice departure and sees a bit of a shift in tone, which isn't a bad thing by any means. I enjoyed it a great deal and look forward to the next part! If you're still reading these reviews and not listening to I listened to this via Audible. If you're still reading these reviews and not listening to the production, I'm not sure what it will take to make that happen. But you should! Apr 06, Alan rated it really liked it. Rating between 3. Jan 24, Jim Mason rated it it was amazing. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is probably my favorite series or the radio play. When I was younger and first reading Hitchhiker's I have to admit I had a huge crush on Fenchurch and was devastated by her disappearance at the end. Sign in. Log into your account. Forgot your password? Password recovery. Recover your password. Get help. Blogtor Who. Hitchhikers Guide - The Quandary Phase. Please enter your comment!

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