Editing Slartibartfast (section)

==Character overview==

Slartibartfast is a Magrathean and a designer of planets.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schlegel |first=Christian |title=Religion and Atheism in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" |publisher=GRIN Verlag |year=2007 |pages=15 |isbn=978-3-638-86251-6}}</ref> His favourite part of the job is creating [[coast]]lines, the most notable of which are the [[fjord]]s found on the coast of Norway on planet [[Earth]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Yaffeth |first=Glenn |title=The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |publisher=[[BenBella Books]] |year=2005 |pages=190 |isbn=1-932100-56-3}}</ref> for which he won an award. Whilst they are trapped on [[prehistory|prehistoric Earth]], [[Arthur Dent]] and [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]] see Slartibartfast's signature deep inside a [[glacier]] in ancient Norway.

When ''Earth Mk. II'' is being made, Slartibartfast is assigned to the continent of [[Africa]]. He is unhappy about this because he has already started "doing it with fjords again" (arguing that they give a continent a lovely [[baroque]] feel), but has been told by his superiors that they are "not equatorial enough." In relation to this, he expresses the view that he would "far rather be happy than right any day."

In any event, the new Earth is not required and, much to Slartibartfast's disgust, [[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Frankie and Benjy Mouse|its owners]] suggest that he take a quick [[skiing]] holiday on his glaciers before dismantling them.

Slartibartfast's aircar is later found near the place where [[Zaphod Beeblebrox]], [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]], [[Trillian (character)|Trillian]] and [[Arthur Dent]] are attacked by cops, who are suddenly killed in a way similar to how the cleaning staff in Slartibartfast's study have perished. There is a note pointing to one of the controls in the aircar saying "This is probably the best button to press."

In ''[[Life, the Universe and Everything]]'' Slartibartfast has joined the Campaign for Real Time (or "CamTim" as the volunteers casually refer to it, a reference to [[Campaign for Real Ale|CAMRA]]) which tries to preserve events as they happened before [[time travel]]ling was invented. He picks up Arthur and Ford from [[Lord's Cricket Ground]] with his ''Starship Bistromath'', after which they head out to stop the robots of Krikkit from bringing together the pieces of the Wikkit Gate.