Ford Prefect was extremely grateful, as he strapped himself in, that this was just another Informational Illusion, and that he was therefore completely safe. In real life it wasn't a ship he would have set foot in for all the rice wine in China.

"You don't understand how important this is," he said. "What? You mean my daughter out there all alone in the Galaxy? You think I don't..." "Can we feel sorry for the Galaxy later?" said Ford.

1st September 2009 So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish: 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Foreword by Neil Gaiman | UK Paperback | Pan MacMillan

29th April 2005 BBC1, 10.50pm - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross Martin Freeman promotes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfAI...

December 2006 Mostly Harmless - Read by Martin Freeman UK Audio Book | 6 CDs | MacMillan Audio Books

Marvin waves. Arthur waves back. awwwww! #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #DouglasAdams

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

Kevin Jon Davies writes about the 1994 Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy substack.com/home/post/p-...

April 2005 Knitted Marvin

Yes, given the infinite sideways extension of probability there was, of course, an almost infinite multiplicity of planets Earth, but, when you came down to it, a major pair of shoes wasn't something you could just replace by mucking about in multi-dimensional space/time.

Lovely piece in @the-independent.com on #HitchhikersLive www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Movie Spinner Keyring, 2005.

Marvin Bobblehead Head Knockers | NECA | 2005

In fact what he was really looking for when he stared distractedly into the sky was any kind of flying saucer at all. The reason he said green was that green was the traditional space livery of the Betelgeuse trading scouts.

Got excited when I recieved a google alert about a ‘new’ Hitchhiker game being announced. Turns out the article was from 2011 and the mobile app was never finished. But clips exist online, narrated by Simon Jones no less! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxP8...

Greetings froods! The #ZZ9 AGM is on the 8th in Faversham plus Zoom (details in MH177 p18), where we'll be electing the 2026 Committee. Email the secretary for electronic voting if you're attending online. If you want to be ON the ZZ9 committee, reach out too and let's chat!

Are you over 18 and in the UK? Are you a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan? Pan McMillan and HHGGLive have teamed up to give one lucky winner an amazing package! www.panmacmillan.com/hitchhikers-...

Attention all ZZ9 members (both human and non-human) Our quarterly zine "Mostly Harmless" (issue number 177) should have arrived in your inboxes nearly a week ago. If it's AWOL, please get in touch!

9th May 2005 Quench Magazine

What a fantastic fanfilm of Ford and Arthur from the #HitchhikersGuide to the Galaxy- as made by Greig Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431... (check out his "Making a working guide..." video for an old-school ZZ9 reference too!) #h2g2 #DouglasAdams

Arvind ( @arvd.bsky.social ) talks to @ticketmaster.com about the upcoming #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy live stage show! discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/theatre/adap...

In case anyone else is painting on wplace.live, some #HHGG fans are drawing a whale and petunias just north of Taunton in the west country. We're mainly organised through the Heart of Gold server (invite at top of r/HItchhikersGuide).

There's a story behind this #DirkGently #Pride #LGBTQIA+ #Comic 1-shot. I've never told the story. It involves censorship, love, J.K.Rowling and the BBC. I wonder if it's time I told it? #LoveIsLove

September 2004 TV Zone, Issue 180: ‘Hitch Hikers Reunited' (Can’t remember where I got this from, but credit to whoever it was)

Did you know that Cardboard Boxes have at least four uses? In fact, as the second most useful thing in the universe, it's likely far more than that. Guide researcher Blue Canary brings forth the details zz9.org/great-guide-...

Have you considered the tale of Manchester United? It's not a story the Jedi would tell, but the Red Devils are known nonetheless. Read about them in this Guide entry from Aradhye Ackshatt zz9.org/guide-guide-...

7th April 2003 Concept doodles for Marvin (left) and the final design (right).

This surprisingly real entry on Norwich from researcher F.D should prove useful to every weary visitor on their journey. Just don't accidentally catch a monk. zz9.org/great-guide-...

This Guide Entry from Dave Williams is all about "Cryptic Crosswords". Full of useful advice and trivia (such as the failure of cryptic crosswords to ever succeed on the planet Tersurus (why, you ask? I'll explain later) zz9.org/great-guide-...

From the collection of our June "Great Guide Entry Giveaway" contest, comes this article: "Matter Disintegrator". It even comes with it's own soundtrack! Many thanks to the ZZ9 member and Guide Researcher known as Willo Hanri zz9.org/great-guide-...

Mostly Harmless Issue 93 (July 2004) zz9.org/mostly-harml...

Tick Tick Tick Tock Tock Tock - Under six hours left in our Great Guide Entry Giveaway! Win a fabulous illustrated edition of The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Just be a member and write us a Guide entry on something everyone needs to know about! zz9.org/the-great-gu...

Tick Tick Tick Tock Tock Tock - Under six hours left in our Great Guide Entry Giveaway! Win a fabulous illustrated edition of The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Just be a member and write us a Guide entry on something everyone needs to know about! zz9.org/the-great-gu...

Just a few hours to go. Contest ends at the end of the month UTC. Should there be a Guide Entry on deadlines? Seems an obvious option here! Just be a ZZ9 member (even newly joined) and submit your Guide Entry through to us before the deadline! zz9.org/the-great-gu...

We all know someone like this, right?

Last Day ahead! One talented and lucky ZZ9 member will win a beautiful Fine Press illustrated edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from #CuriousKing. Check out the info here, but dont delay! Entries close at the end of the month zz9.org/the-great-gu...

A few days left before the end of lunch. Ahem, I mean, the end of the month, and our editors finally review submissions to our Great Guide Entry Giveaway. Open to ZZ9 members, with a fantastic prize courtesy of #CuriousKing zz9.org/the-great-gu...

Tomorrow night I'm giving a talk about my career at the Haywards Heath Arts Festival in West Sussex, England. There's a ton of clips (many video, rarely if ever seen) and a lot of inside stories about working in radio, audio, animation and more. If you can make it I think you'll enjoy it.

We're in the final week of the Great Guide Entry Giveaway. Prize is a fantastically pretty (& limited) copy of Hitchhiker's. Just be a ZZ9 member, and submit your guide entry on something the world needs to know. Rain on the moon? How to sleep underwater? That kind of thing 1/🧵

We're giving away one copy of this gorgeous illustrated Fine Press Edition of The #HItchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy, generously donated by Curious King! Just be a ZZ9 member, and submit a new Guide Entry about something that the world needs advice on! zz9.org/the-great-gu...

Dear ZZ9ers. Have you thought about the Guide Entry to write for our Great Guide Entry Giveaway (prize is a gorgeous Fine Press edition courtesy of Curious King ), or do I have to pull out the Kill-o-Zap? zz9.org/the-great-gu...

ZZ9 presents: Poems of Vogonity. A convenient PDF of all the winners of our #TowelDay contest, along with a few other tidbits - most notably info about the Great Guide Entry Giveaway contest in June, Fine Press HHGG prize courtesy of Curious King zz9.org/wp-content/u...

This kickstarter, relevant to our interests, is now live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...

Who's looking forward to a new day?!

Are you in the habit of leaving things till the last moment?

ZZ9 have one copy of the fabulously beautiful Fine Press Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to win. All you need to do to enter is write up a new Guide Entry, and be a ZZ9 member by the end of the month. 1/2

What's for dinner?

Do you ever think there should be a Guide entry about how to cope with becoming a perfectly safe penguin, and are sad there isn't one? Have you considered YOU could write it, and also enter to win a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: zz9.org/the-great-gu...

Do you ever feel there is something odd about this place?

Don't let this happen to you! Members - get your new Guide Entries written up and submitted to ZZ9 (for a chance to win a fabulous Curious King illustrated Fine Press print of The #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy zz9.org/the-great-gu...