The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By: Douglas Adams
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books trade edition (7)
Series: Hitchhiker's Trilogy, #1
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1997 06
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780345418913
Copyright date: 1980
Subjects: Ford Prefect (Fictitious character); Arthur Dent (Fictitious character); Fiction
Other titles: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Description: Seconds before 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 began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he’s bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars and don't forget to bring a towel!
--back cover