The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Book 3
Life, the Universe and Everything
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 221
- ISBN-13
- 9781509844920
- Type
- novel
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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.
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…
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