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ZZ9ers! Sunday 1st Feb is our Reading Slouch.

There's a ruined abbey to explore. The Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum to learn from. Waterways to stroll alongside (weather permitting). Shops! Pubs!

Full details in the recent MH178, or event in ZZ9's facebook group #HHGG #ZZ9PZA

cover image of MH178 - Marvin from the promo of the HHGG Live stage show, sitting

the latest Mostly Harmless (issue 178) was sent out earlier this week!

If you were expecting it, but haven't seen it, let us know!

If you aren't a member, but want to be, visit zz9.org/membership

#zz9 #DouglasAdams #HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HHGG #H2G2

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.

That Beeblebear is so cute!

@johncoxon.bsky.social wrote a review of that party back in Mostly Harmless 112, saying it was held at Penguin's London offices.

It appears the Beeblebear belongs to one Hannah - who worked for Puffin (the children's arm of Penguin) and a massive Hitchhiker's fan

"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

YouTube video by Drum Tracks Direct Martin Freeman - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross 2005

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

The TARDIS and Stonehenge

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

Drawing on the Past Creating "The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1994)

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.

Inside the mad genius of making an immersive Hitchhiker’s Guide stage show Douglas Adams’s trippy, plotless voyage into the cosmic and absurd is this week becoming an immersive theatre production and, according to its producer Arvind Ethan David, it makes perfect sense

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.

ah neat!

I originally found the videos linked individually in an article somewhere, rather than the playlist. Because I was loading each video directly, their unlisted status was more obvious (looks like that's still the case too if you click into them!)

Do you have all the cut scenes they released? They are (were?) unlisted videos on yt, but they had them on a playlist on one of their articles about the game (they wrote up a piece about how their development process failed them on this game), and about a dozen videos total from memory

YouTube video by Hothead Games The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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-...

Join ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan club Membership of ZZ9 gives you four copies of our magazine, Mostly Harmless, as well as access to all of our news and events.

If you're not a member and want to fix that oversight, or need to renew, then zz9.org/membership/ is the place to visit!

MH177 features the latest part of the series on the Ian Gibson comic adaptation of Life the Universe and Everything, an introduction to the new Beeblebear Depots, and details of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

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!

There is precedent too - the 2012/2013 stage shows had guest Guides, including several fantastic women. Here’s Miriam Margolyes in the role for instance

9th May 2005

Quench Magazine

YouTube video by Greig Johnson Making Ford Prefect shows Arthur Dent The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

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

Meet the man daring to adapt The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy We chat to the co-creator and writer of London’s most exciting new immersive theatre experience, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Arvind ( @arvd.bsky.social ) talks to @ticketmaster.com about the upcoming #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy live stage show!

discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/theatre/adap...

Wplace - A massive real-time pixel art canvas on the world map! Wplace is a collaborative, real-time pixel canvas layered over the world map, where anyone can paint and create art together.

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).