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==Original Cover Blurb==
 
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==Story Summary==
 
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''Set 8 years after the events of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur, who has apparently hitched a ride all the way to the spot where the Earth once was, is shocked to find the Earth, perfectly intact. After hitching a ride with a man named Russell, he finds Russell's sister, Fenchurch, unconscious in the backseat, and immediatly falls in love with her. As he learns from Russell, the Vogon fleet was actually only a hallucination, brought on by drugs released into the air as part of an experiment by the government. Only three months had passed since the incident. Arthur also learns that Fenchurch is mentally unstable, having gone mad at a cafe in Rickmansworth at the exact moment when the Vogons were about to destroy the Earth. Arthur finally makes it back to his house, finding a mysterious fishbowl in it. He makes up a story about going on vacation to southern California as an alibi for his three-month-long disappearance. Arthur then runs into Fenchurch again, and, desperate to spend more time with her, drives her to the local train station. He learns that she, too, suspects that the Vogons were not a hallucination. He receives her phone number, but it turns out to be a wrong number, and Arthur sinks into depression. ''
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''Determined to take his mind off Fenchurch, he buys a computer to try to locate the place his cave in prehistoric Earth is currently, and by a stroke of luck the location turns out to be Fenchurch's house. Arthur and Fenchurch start a romantic relationship. ''
   
 
==Characters==
 
==Characters==

Revision as of 19:52, 29 May 2011


Original Cover Blurb

Story Summary

Set 8 years after the events of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur, who has apparently hitched a ride all the way to the spot where the Earth once was, is shocked to find the Earth, perfectly intact. After hitching a ride with a man named Russell, he finds Russell's sister, Fenchurch, unconscious in the backseat, and immediatly falls in love with her. As he learns from Russell, the Vogon fleet was actually only a hallucination, brought on by drugs released into the air as part of an experiment by the government. Only three months had passed since the incident. Arthur also learns that Fenchurch is mentally unstable, having gone mad at a cafe in Rickmansworth at the exact moment when the Vogons were about to destroy the Earth. Arthur finally makes it back to his house, finding a mysterious fishbowl in it. He makes up a story about going on vacation to southern California as an alibi for his three-month-long disappearance. Arthur then runs into Fenchurch again, and, desperate to spend more time with her, drives her to the local train station. He learns that she, too, suspects that the Vogons were not a hallucination. He receives her phone number, but it turns out to be a wrong number, and Arthur sinks into depression.

Determined to take his mind off Fenchurch, he buys a computer to try to locate the place his cave in prehistoric Earth is currently, and by a stroke of luck the location turns out to be Fenchurch's house. Arthur and Fenchurch start a romantic relationship.

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