First Questions: The End of the World!

[Laura]

Hi all,

By now you may have had a chance to get started with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Here are a few questions to think about and/or discuss as we continue reading this month's book!

1) What do you think of the book so far? Have you ever read this before or seen the film? Share your initial impressions.

2) How does Adams play with the tropes of traditional (or more serious) Science Fiction with this book? What is one of the more unexpected elements of the story for you?

3) With an original publication date of 1979, Adams imagines futuristic technology within the universe that at times predicts and sometimes misses the tech that came-to-be in the subsequent years. Let's talk about the technologies presented in the book and how they hold up now.

(We'll keep Question #3 in mind in particular as we watch the film, which was released in 2005, some 25+years after the novel!)