It was produced by Megadodo Publications, which employed Ford Prefect as one of its researchers eventually leading him to become stranded on planet Earth for fifteen years while writing a Guide entry about Earth. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also known simply as the Guide or the book, was a guidebook for hitch-hikers throughout the Universe which featured heavily in the sci-fi series of the same name. First, it is slightly cheaper and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.” -The foreword to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979 it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. “ The Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions.
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