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Arthur Dent thought his day was going badly when someone tried to demolish his house.
Then someone demolished his planet.
Rescued by his friend Ford - who is not a human from Guilford, but an alien from somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse - Arthur is flung into an adventure among the stars. He will face aliens, robots, world-builders, and that girl he quite fancied who turned him down at a party one time. All in the name of research for the greatest book in the galaxy.
He just has to remember not to panic.
Part of the multi-media phenomenon The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is beloved the world over. Douglas Adams' 'trilogy in five parts' originated as a radio show, developed into a book series, and has since spawned a TV series, a film, additional sequels and expanded radio series, a famously impossible video game, and a number of stage shows. It was a Sunday Times bestseller,and ranked fourth in a 2003 BBC poll to find the Nation's Best-Loved Book.
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'Douglas Adams's inspired melding of hippy-trail guidebook and sci-fi comedy turned its novelisations into a publishing phenomenon' - Guardian
'In a sense that only time can test, it could be said that theHitchhiker's Guide has become folklore' - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
'Douglas was a genius, and that's not actually a word I toss around very lightly or use very much' - Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781399617246
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 255 g
Dimensions: 200 x 132 x 20 mm
deeply smart and deeply silly, endlessly inventive - Empire
Everything you want in a science fiction book including laughs
I bought all five of The Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy for my son's birthday. He read them when he was a teenager and now he is 46, wants the fun of re reading them.
A fun book, filled with unexpected events, radiant characters and a wacky story to it. Arthur Dent finds himself exploring the universe after a series of the most impossible events. One of the most fun sci-fi... More
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