The novels The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and The Martian by Andy Weir both fall under the theme of science fiction. A lot of crazy stuff can happen in science fiction. Sometimes really dangerous stuff. Theodore Sturgeon once said “Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”
The two books have their similarities. One similarity between these two books is that they both have humans from Earth traveling through space to other planets. While these books have their similarities, they also have their differences. For example, in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the main characters had living antagonists. However, in The Martian, the only antagonist was nature because no living creature was opposing the main character.
The first similarity was that both books’ main characters were humans from Earth who traveled to space or other planets and were in danger of dying because they were in a place that their bodies weren’t designed to be. The
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Some similarities are: both of the books’main characters travel in space, they both are about humans from Earth who visit other planets, they both fall under the genre of science fiction, and they both have main characters who come close to dying. Some differences are that that one was about fighting an actual enemy, but the other was about fighting nature; one had more advanced technology than the other; and one had civilization on every planet and the other didn’t. The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was very fun to read because it brought me into another universe and I got to explore the imagination of the author. The Martian was fun to read because I learned a lot about actual science and I really got into the book. I would definitely recommend both of these books to