The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1980 by Serious Productions, Ltd.
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Originally published in Great Britain by Pan Books Ltd., in
1980. Subsequently published in the United States by
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another which states that this has already happened.