The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Extremely funny … inspired lunacy … [and] over much too soon. -The Washington Post Book World
SOON 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 Read
It’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… .
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