日本科幻文学 经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第1章2

经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第1章2  

Or so it would seem.
Two of there strange
ape-like creatures survived.
Arthur Dent escaped at the very last moment because an old friend of his
Ford Prefect
suddenly turned out to be from a small pla in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he had hitherto claimed; and
more to the point
he knew how to hitch rides on flying saucers.
Tricia McMillian – or Trillian – had skipped the pla six months earlier with Zaphod Beeblebrox
the then President of the Galaxy.
Two survivors.
They are all that remains of the greatest experiment ever conducted – to find the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer of Life
the Universe
and Everything.
And
less than half a million miles from where their starship is drifting lazily through the inky blackness of space
a Vogon ship is moving slowly towards them.