Mostly Harmless
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 259
- ISBN-13
- 9781509844913
- Type
- novel
About this book
Mostly Harmless didn't arrive until 1992 — eight years after So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish — closing out Douglas Adams' own five books in the series at 259 pages.
Key facts about Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams wrote Mostly Harmless, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1992. The book has 259 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781509844913 to find the main one.
Mostly Harmless is book 5 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
Mostly Harmless is book 5 in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It follows So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. It is followed by And Another Thing.... 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 9781509844913