title: Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
author:  Douglas Adams 
description: In this installment of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga, Ford Prefect of the planet Betelgeuse relies on serendipity and his own quick wits to protect a new edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide from the loathsome Vogons. A 12-week PW bestseller in cloth. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **"Mostly Harmless"**
  
  >  **"Mostly Harmless"**
  
  > “MostlyHarmless”
  
  > Douglas Adams “ Mostly Harmless ”
  
    
  
  > For Ron
  
  > With grateful thanks to Sue Freestone and Michael Bywater for their support,
  > help and constructive abuse.
  
  > Anything that happens, appens.
  
  > Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes
  > something else to happen.
  
  > Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
  
  > It doesn't do it in chronological order, though.
  
    
    
  
  >  **"Mostly Harmless"**
  
  >  **1**
  
    
  
  > The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons:
  > partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little
  > muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening
  > anyway.
  
  > One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties
  > involved in trying to exceed it. You can't. Nothing travels faster than the
  > speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, whic