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The text then transitions into Chapter 1, where Arthur Dent awakens in a cold, damp cave on prehistoric Earth in Islington, facing the terror of having been lost in time and space. The chapter sets up a long-anticipated, seemingly impossible rescue as eerie lights descend and a silver ship lands, introducing a bizarre alien encounter.","Praise for Douglas Adams  \nand his ɹfth Hitchhiker book  \nMOSTLY HARMLESS!  \n“Hitchhiker fans rejoice!… If you were hoping for more of the same zany, nonsensical mayhem produced in the earlier books, you’re in luck.”  \n—The New York Times Book Review  \n“It is Mr. Adams’s genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock…. Delightful.”  \n—The Baltimore Sun  \n“A winner… The humor is hilarious, the cliʃ-hangers are cliʃ-hanging, and overall it’s classic Hitchhiker’s shtick…. For those of you wondering about Elvis’s whereabouts—well, read Mostly Harmless.”  \n—The Boston Phoenix  \n“The universe, the parallel universes, the pasts, the presents and the futures, indeed the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash is hilariously up for grabs in Mostly Harmless.”  \n—The Denver Post  \nBooks by Douglas Adams  \nTHE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY  \nTHE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING  \nSO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL MOSTLY HARMLESS THE SALMON OF DOUBT THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY  \nTHE ORIGINAL HITCHHIKER RADIO SCRIPTS THE MEANING OF LIFF (with John Lloyd)  \nLAST CHANCE TO SEE (with Mark Carwardine) THE DEEPER MEANING OF LIFF (with John Lloyd)  \nBooks published by The Random House Publishing Group are available at quantity discounts on bulk purchases for premium, educational, fund-raising, and special sales use. For details, please call 1-800-733-3000.  \nFor Sally  \nChapter 1  \nhe regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.  \nIt wasn’t just that the cave was cold, it wasn’t just that it was damp and smelly. It was that the cave was in the middle of Islington and there wasn’t a bus due for two million years.  \nTime is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.  \nHe was stranded on prehistoric Earth as the result of a complex sequence of events that had involved his being alternately blown up and insulted in more bizarre regions of the Galaxy than he had ever dreamed existed, and though life had now turned very, very, very quiet, he was still feeling jumpy.  \nHe hadn’t been blown up now for ɹve years.  \nHe had hardly seen anyone since he and Ford Prefect had parted company four years previously, and he hadn’t been insulted in all that time either.  \nExcept just once.  \nIt had happened on a spring evening about two years ago.  \nHe was returning to his cave just a little after dusk when he became aware of lights ɻashing eerily through the clouds. He turned and stared, with hope suddenly clambering through his heart. Rescue. Escape. The castaway’s impossible dream—a ship.  \nAnd as he watched, as he stared in wonder and excitement, a long silver ship descended through the warm evening air, quietly, without fuss, its long legs unlocking in a smooth ballet of technology.  \nIt alighted gently on the ground, and what little hum it had generated died away, as if lulled by the evening calm.  \nA ramp extended itself.  \nLight streamed out.  \nA tall ɹgure appeared silhouetted in the hatchway. It walked down the ramp and stood in front of Arthur.  \n“You’re a jerk, Dent,” it said simply.  \nIt was alien, very alien. 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