Life, the Universe and Everything
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 221
- ISBN-13
- 9781509844920
- Type
- novel
About this book
Life, the Universe and Everything, published in 1982 at 221 pages, is the third of Adams's five novels, keeping to the series' absurdist, digressive comic voice.
Key facts about Life, the Universe and Everything
Life, the Universe and Everything is a novel by Douglas Adams. Readers have had it since 1982. It runs to 221 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Life, the Universe and Everything. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781509844920 to find the main one.
Life, the Universe and Everything is book 3 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979).
Additionally, Douglas Adams writes Dirk Gently as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Salmon of Doubt is the latest published Douglas Adams book on file, from 2002.
About Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was an English writer and humorist whose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy became one of the most influential comic science fiction works of the twentieth century. See every Douglas Adams book in order.
Its place in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life, the Universe and Everything is book 3 in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It follows The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It is followed by So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. See the full The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reading order.
Moments before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, mild-mannered Englishman Arthur Dent is rescued by his friend Ford Prefect, who turns out to be an alien researcher for a wildly unreliable electronic travel guide called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What began as a BBC radio comedy in 1978 became, with the first novel in 1979, one of science fiction's defining comic voices: absurdist, digressive, and quietly devastating about the universe's total indifference to human concerns, all…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781509844920