The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Book 1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 132
- ISBN-13
- 9781535185554
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy opens Douglas Adams's series in 1979: moments before Earth is demolished for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by his alien friend Ford Prefect. At a slim 132 pages, it's the shortest book in the series.
Its place in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is book 1 in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It is followed by The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. 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
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