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A magrathean designer of planets in the hitchikers guide to the galaxy. Slartibartfast is a character in Douglas Adam's radio/TV/book/film/computer game entity; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He first appears in the radio series, he is a designer for Magrathea - a planet who's natives specialise in designing planets (including Earth). Slartibartfast designed Coastlines - including Norway. Douglas Adam's wanted an embarrassing name and started off with a collection of unbroadcastable obsenities then used similar sounding words to create the final name. Slartibartfast reappeared in the book Life The Universe and Everything - trying to save the Universe from the evil of Krikkit.

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