[The hitchhikers in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe] are searching for a perfect cup of tea and for a question, the answer of which is 42. They blunder onto one absurd situation after another, such as the Restaurant of the title, which is located in space and time at the very end of the universe. It is a nightclub that offers its guests the opportunity to watch the universe come to an end as floor-show entertainment every evening at the same time. Reminiscent of Stanislaw Lem's writing (without his underlying seriousness) and of Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction, it is both an entertaining, silly story and a successful satire of the worst of S.F. novels. As a sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy …, it maintains the disrespectful, crazy tone and should be popular.

Claudia Morner, in a review of "The Restaurant at the End...