42 years of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy — Photograph France

Why the number 42? Stephen Fry, a close friend of Douglas, could, but won’t, tell us. He is the only one who knows how supercomputer Deep Thought came up with 42 as the ‘Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything’. OR IS HE?

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