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Hitch Hiker`s Guide To The Galaxy The title, Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy is the name of a sort of electronic encyclopedia, which contains information about just about anything in the galaxy and is especially made for Hitch Hiker`s. Ford Prefect is an editor for the Guide. All along the story Ford and Arthur are often helped out by this little gadget. Structure This edition that I have read is a part of a collection called The Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy: a trilogy in four parts. It contains four books, the first of which I will be doing this book report on. Setting The story begins in England, in Arthur Dent’s home, but it soon expands to a science fiction like setting in outer space. Main characters and their relation to each other Arthur Dent is one of the main characters, he is a simple human from earth, he has a friend, Ford Prefect, who is an alien (Arthur didn’t know that until the beginning of the book) from Betelgeuse, he is an editor for the Guide. And finally there is Zaphod Beeblebrox, a friend from Ford’s youth, who is also an alien from Betelgeuse. Zaphod is also the president o