num_pages: 224
description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”— The Washington Post Book WorldSOON 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 ReadIt’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. . . .
language: English
title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
titlecomplete: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide #1)
characters: Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Slartibartifast, Trillian, Arthur Dent, Marvin, the paranoid android
genres: Audiobook, Science Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1781199
series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
publisher: Turtleback Books