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Vogon

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The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—initially a BBC Radio series by Douglas Adams—who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 56 relations: And Another Thing... (novel), Arthur Dent, Atari 8-bit computers, Battleship, Beam Software, Bill Wallis, Brain, Brazil (1985 film), Bulldozer, Bureaucracy, Bureaucrat, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Cartoonist, Crab, Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, Douglas Adams, Effect of spaceflight on the human body, Eoin Colfer, Ford Prefect (character), Franz Kafka, Garth Jennings, Gazelle, Greenwood Publishing Group, Humanoid, Hyperspace, Indigestion, Infocom, James Gillray, Lexeme, List of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters, Marcus O'Dair, Marksman, Martin Benson (actor), Marvin the Paranoid Android, Mostly Harmless, Neil Gaiman, Nonsense verse, Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Radar, Richard Griffiths, Rough Guides, Rupert Degas, Springer Science+Business Media, Terry Gilliam, The Castle (novel), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series), ... Expand index (6 more) »

  2. Fictional civil servants
  3. Fictional poets
  4. Literary characters introduced in 1979
  5. Literary villains
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters

And Another Thing... (novel)

And Another Thing... is the sixth and final installment of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of six books".

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Arthur Dent

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Vogon and Arthur Dent are the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters.

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Atari 8-bit computers

The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800.

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Battleship

A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.

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Beam Software

Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Beam Software, was an Australian video game development studio founded in 1980 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen and based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Bill Wallis

William Wallis (20 November 1936 – 6 September 2013) was a British character actor and comedian who appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as in the theatre.

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Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.

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Brazil (1985 film)

Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science-fiction black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard.

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Bulldozer

A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials.

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Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) is an academic book publisher based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images).

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).

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Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion

Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion is a book by Neil Gaiman about Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG).

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Effect of spaceflight on the human body

The effects of spaceflight on the human body are complex and largely harmful over both short and long term.

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Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer (born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books.

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Ford Prefect (character)

Ford Prefect (also called Ix) is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams. Vogon and Ford Prefect (character) are the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.

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Garth Jennings

Garth Jennings is an English director, screenwriter and actor.

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Gazelle

A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus Gazella.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Humanoid

A humanoid (from English human and -oid "resembling") is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics.

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Hyperspace

In science fiction, hyperspace (also known as nulspace, subspace, overspace, jumpspace and similar terms) is a concept relating to higher dimensions as well as parallel universes and a faster-than-light (FTL) method of interstellar travel.

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Indigestion

Indigestion, also known as dyspepsia or upset stomach, is a condition of impaired digestion.

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Infocom

Infocom was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction.

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James Gillray

James Gillray (13 August 1756Gillray, James and Draper Hill (1966). Fashionable contrasts. Phaidon. p. 8.Baptism register for Fetter Lane (Moravian) confirms birth as 13 August 1756, baptism 17 August 1756 1June 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810.

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Lexeme

A lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection.

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List of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters

This page is a list of characters in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Vogon and list of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters are the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters.

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Marcus O'Dair

Marcus O'Dair is an English writer, musician/manager, broadcaster and lecturer.

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Marksman

A marksman is a person who is skilled in precision shooting.

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Martin Benson (actor)

Martin Benjamin Benson (10 August 1918 – 28 February 2010) was a British character actor who appeared in films, theatre and television.

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Marvin the Paranoid Android

Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. Vogon and Marvin the Paranoid Android are the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters.

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Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless is a 1992 novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays.

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Nonsense verse

Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme.

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Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Richard Griffiths

Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage.

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Rough Guides

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips.

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Rupert Degas

Rupert Joel Degas (born 17 August 1970) is a British actor, impressionist and voice over artist.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American–born British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator and actor.

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The Castle (novel)

The Castle (Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. Vogon and the Castle (novel) are bureaucracy in fiction.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy of five books" by Douglas Adams, with a sixth book written by Eoin Colfer. Vogon and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) are bureaucracy in fiction.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which aired between 5 January and 9 February 1981 on BBC2 in the United Kingdom.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction video game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases

The Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase, Quintessential Phase and Hexagonal Phase are respectively the third, fourth, fifth and sixth series of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' radio series.

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction comedy "trilogy" by Douglas Adams.

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Toby Longworth

Toby Longworth is a British actor.

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Tower block

A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.

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Trillian (character)

Tricia Marie McMillan, also known as Trillian Astra, is a fictional character from Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Vogon and Trillian (character) are the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters.

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See also

Fictional civil servants

Fictional poets

Literary characters introduced in 1979

Literary villains

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon

Also known as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, Resistance is useless, Resistance is useless!, Vogon Constructor Fleet, Vogon Poetry, Vogons.

, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Toby Longworth, Tower block, Trillian (character).