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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

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Nominee:Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award -Grades 9-12 (2002)
"IRRESISTIBLE!"
--The Boston Globe
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy".
--Publishers Weekly

Book Details

  • Publisher: Del Rey Books
  • Publish Date: Sep 27th, 1995
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.80in - 4.10in - 0.70in - 0.25lb
  • EAN: 9780345391803
  • Categories: Science Fiction - Action & AdventureHumorous - GeneralAction & Adventure

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About the Author

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.

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Praise for this book

"Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written . . . ranks with the best set pieces in Mark Twain."--The Atlantic

"Irresistible!"--The Boston Globe

"With droll wit, a keen eye for detail and heavy doses of insight . . . Adams makes us laugh until we cry."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

"One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius."--David Walliams

"Really entertaining and fun."--Michael Palin

"Fizzing with ideas . . . brilliant."--Charlie Brooker

"Weird and wonderful."--Eoin Colfer

"It changed my whole life. It's literally out of this world."--Tom Baker