The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Book 2
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Published
- 1 January 1980
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9781590072622
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe followed in 1980 at 224 pages, continuing Arthur, Ford, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin and Trillian's journey across an increasingly bleak, increasingly funny cosmos.
Its place in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is book 2 in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It follows The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is followed by Life, the Universe and Everything. 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 9781590072622