The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 132
- ISBN-13
- 9781535185554
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a novel by Douglas Adams. Readers have had it since 1979. It runs to 132 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781535185554 to find the main one.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is book 1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781535185554