Awards

• Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2001

Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien. After that, things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover. Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

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Don't panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!<br><br> It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive. <br><br>Washington Post<br><br> The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions. <br><br>Chicago Tribune<br><br> Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves. <br><br>School Library Journal<br><br> As parody, it's marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it's, well, hysterical. <br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.

Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon. --The Washington Post Book World The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions.--Chicago Tribune Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves.--School Library Journal [A] whimsical odyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy. --Publishers Weekly

Don't panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! -It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive.- Washington Post -The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions.- Chicago Tribune -Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves.- School Library Journal -As parody, it's marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it's, well, hysterical.-

Don't panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive. Washington Post The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions. Chicago Tribune Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves. School Library Journal As parody, it's marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it's, well, hysterical.

Don't panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! <br> It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive. <br>Washington Post <br> The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions. <br>Chicago Tribune <br> Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves. <br>School Library Journal <br> As parody, it's marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it's, well, hysterical. <p> From the Hardcover edition.

Author Information

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.

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