Hate to stick a fish in your ear, but Encyclopaedia Galactica was actually stolen from Asimov... Foundation series. Parodying other extant SF, indeed!

Different publisher. Hari Seldon's was authoritative. The HHGTTG's was ... it just was/is/will be/will-on be/will have future been ...

There was one point in the book when it was predicted that the executives of the Syrius Cybernetics Corporation's Complaints Department (which covered the land masses of three medium-sized planets) would be the first against the wall when the revolution came. A copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which fell through a time warp from the 25th century confirmed that they were, indeed, the first against the wall when the revolution came.

[I think this is right, but I didn't LIU -e]


The idiot also known as Capfka ...