{"product_id":"the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-paperback","title":"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Adams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . and] over much too soon.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSOON TO BE A HULU SERIES - Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of \u003ci\u003eThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter that, things get much, much worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\u003c\/i\u003e . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouglas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, if you could only figure out the question. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIRRESISTIBLE!\u003cbr\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003eSeconds before the 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.\u003cbr\u003eTogether this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide (\"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have\") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. \u003cbr\u003eWhere are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Adams\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of \u003ci\u003eThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\u003c\/i\u003e radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. 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