In the very first radio series of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams came up with the concept of custom planet building.

I intend to put his idea into action.

My planet will be a peaceful place where you can while away a couple of hours, or just a few minutes. A tranquil zone where nothing is dangerous, and nothing is boring.

I shall start with a city, or perhaps a large town, constructing streets, buildings, parks, a zoo, a river with bridges over it. Then roads will be built leading out of it; there will be a train station where you can embark for other destinations: mountains, villages, forests, a seaside resort. Slowly the images will spread across the planet’s virtual surface like lace, and then the gaps will fill up, until one day the entire globe will be covered, up there in an imaginary dimension for everyone to visit.

The final result will, I hope, be executed in virtual reality and transmitted to headsets and giant screens in the homes of every human being in the world.

In the meantime the planet exists as a series of pictures, and stacks of rough sketches and written ideas.

Like everything on my planet, these scenes are dreamlike, mysterious and slightly funny.

They also represent a questioning of the structure of reality. As philosopher Brian McGee put it: "the critical examination of our presuppositions - which is a philosophical activity - is morally as well as intellectually important."

Perhaps you find all this a bit far-fetched. But before dismissing the idea, take a look at five images I created, by clicking here.

Then when you come back to h2g2 and reality, let me know what you think.