Photo of a US passport and a passport cover custom-printed with the cover art from the original US edition of the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Said art features a hand giving the universal thumb gesture for hitching a ride while a green planet makes a silly face against a backdrop of space. (Douglas Adams and many fans dislike this version of the cover, but it was on the first copy of the story I had as a kid and I'll always have great fondness for it.) The passport in its Hitchhiker's Guide cover.

I got a new passport and learned you can get any image you want printed onto a passport holder, and this had to happen.

I briefly considered making some original cover art based on how the Guide itself is described in the story, but I then thought about all the reasons not to pull out something that says “DON’T PANIC” in large, friendly letters in view of some jittery border guard who may not get the literary reference.

  • @Noodle07
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    29 days ago

    It’s fine to have it says “don’t panic” because it would be written in friendly letters