Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

#1 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

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Ballantine
01 April 2005

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Humorous Sci-Fi; Aliens; Space Exploration

Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World

SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien.

After that, things get much, much worse.

With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.

Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

By: Douglas Adams
Imprint: Ballantine
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 173mm, Width: 107mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 125g
ISBN: 9780345391803
ISBN 10: 0345391802
Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 April 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (#1 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon. --The Washington Post Book World The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions.--Chicago Tribune Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves.--School Library Journal [A] whimsical odyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy. --Publishers Weekly