The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Paperback, 815 pages

English language

Published March 16, 2002 by Del Rey.

ISBN:
9780345453747
OCLC Number:
793307001
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy of six books" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name, centering on the adventures of the only man to survive the destruction of Earth; while roaming outer space, he comes to learn the truth behind Earth's existence. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months.The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.

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Subjects

  • Prefect, Ford (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Dent, Arthur (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Humorous stories, English
  • Science fiction, English