About the Guide
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about itself...
What is the Guide?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-Three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters.
How Does it Work?
The Guide is an infinite improbability device that harnesses the power of the Babel fish to translate the collective knowledge of the galaxy into something approaching comprehensibility. It employs a sophisticated search algorithm based on the principles of bistromathics and the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
Users can search for any topic in the known (and several unknown) universes, and the Guide will provide a mostly harmless summary of what it knows about the subject. The accuracy of these entries ranges from "mostly accurate" to "mostly harmless" to "wildly inaccurate but significantly more interesting than the truth."
Contributing to the Guide
The Guide is always looking for new entries from field researchers across the galaxy. Whether you've discovered a new form of life in the horse head nebula, found the perfect Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster recipe, or just want to share your thoughts on the meaning of life (spoiler: it's 42), we welcome your contributions.
Remember: DON'T PANIC, and always carry a towel. The Guide is your friend in an unfriendly universe, your companion in the vast expanse of space, and most importantly, cheaper than the Encyclopedia Galactica.
"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects..."
First, it's slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words "DON'T PANIC" inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.