Title: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
First published: March 3, 1984
Description: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. 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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Also contained in:

 - [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts][1]
 - [The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide][2]
 - [Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163706W)

  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163692W
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163713W
Subjects: comic science fiction, Vogons, Humorous fiction, Imaginary voyages, wit and humour, Science Fiction, Interstellar travel, Fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Open Library Staff Picks, Life on other planets, Ford Prefect (Fictitious character), Arthur Dent (Fictitious character), Humorous stories, Viajes interplanetarios, Ficción, Language readers, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Radio plays, English literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, Dent, arthur (fictitious character), fiction, Prefect, ford (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Christian life, Indians of North America, Science-fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, New age movement, Fiction, action & adventure, English language, Adventure, Humorous, Action & adventure, General, Space opera, English & college success -> english -> fiction, English & college success -> english -> humor, Fiction in English
Places: Galaxy, Earth, Heart of Gold, Magrathea, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
People: Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin, Trisha MacMillan, Slartibartfast, Deep Thought