About The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded
yellow sun."
One Thursday the Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Seconds before it is destroyed, hapless hero Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together they begin their journey through space aided by quotes from the Guide: "A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." A galaxy-full of fellow travellers: Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy, Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone and Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant and chronically depressed robot. |
For Arthur Dent this already seems more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun and the galaxy is a very strange and startling place.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a BBC Radio 4 series. Since first airing in March 1978, it has been transformed into a series of best-selling novels, a TV series, a record album, a computer game and several stage adaptations. The book went straight to Number One on the UK Bestseller List. One of the most beloved, well-know and iconic books ever written, H2G2 is sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and British sitcoms.