 I talked about Hitchhiker's Guide last episode primarily so I could introduce you to this book. It's about a guy named Tom Carmody who is visited in his living room by an alien who declares him the winner of a galactic sweepstakes and whisks him away to the galactic center where they can do all the paperwork and give him his prize. They soon discover that it is a mistake. Carmody asks him to send him home and they say okay what are the coordinates. Carmody spends the rest of the book caught up in a macrocosmic bureaucracy being referred from one god and one planet builder to another in an effort to find exactly where and when and even which universe his home is actually in. Like Hitchhiker's Guide this book starts with a strong and very entertaining premise but unlike the work of Douglas Adams it tends to bog down in very lengthy pseudo philosophical lectures which while good are much too long-winded and it kind of peters out and then just ends. The similarities of Hitchhiker's Guide are amazing especially considering that Dimension of Miracles was published in 1968 a full 10 years before Hitchhiker's Guide. Neil Gaiman had a few things to say about that. Douglas Adams said to me that he wrote Dimension of Miracles. He wrote Hitchhiker's Guide before reading Dimension of Miracles and once he once it started being broadcast on the radio people kept coming up to him and saying you should read that you read Dimension of Miracles and so he did and he found it very very disturbingly close. It really is and you know Dimension of Miracles was the the prototype the sequence with Maudsley the planet builder particularly could have been straight out of Douglas Adams. Did you notice my Hitchhiker's Guide video was 42 seconds long? I did not plan that I swear.