The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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A trilogy of 5 books (and one short story) that combine sci-fi and humor quite well. Also, a BBC radio series, TV miniseries, play, and soon to be a movie. If you haven't read them, READ THEM!
(The third one's the best...)
Consists of Arthur Dent (Earthling), Trillian (Other Earthling, aka Tricia McMillian), Marvin (the paranoid android who hates his life, is 37 times older than the universe by the end), Zaphod Beeblebrox (the two-headed president), and Ford Prefect (the guy with the towel) and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of others.
- Bistromathics
- Improbability drive
- Angel food cake
- flying
- Forty-Two
- the list
- goes on
- and on...
As an anecdote, the IFI default code contains some examples of declaring variables. One is THE_ANSWER set to 42, a famous tidbit from the series.
