the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is such an encouraging book to read as someone who likes to dabble in writing once in a while because the story is absolutely batshit crazy and features multiple extremely unlikely last minute saves for the main character who seem to be in an inescapable situation, and not in the “how did I not see that coming? Genius foreshadowing!” Way but the “how the fuck did that even work out? Anyways-“ within like, 120 pages. I once quit a sci fi story because of poor planning and accidentally leaving a human character stranded in outta space without any protective gear or possible last minute safe and was like fuck, my guy is fucked, there’s no way I find a solution for his survival that won’t be incredibly pretentious and random and look like poor planning so I just, gave up, with my main character dying in space. And this book faces the same scenario but goes, oh well but what if a super super rare mega spaceship that they have no previous connection to suddenly shows up and beams them on board where they meet the president of the entire galaxy and his hot situationship, and it’s like, which bbc writer in the 70s pulled that solution out of their ass and presented it as an entirely possible thing to just happen, like what the fuck, but the story is so insane and the next scene is so captivating that you don’t even care that much. And they’re not doing it once but twice Whitin the thinnest book I’ve ever read, and it works?
