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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy." PW
Del Rey
September 1995
Featuring: Arthur Dent; Ford Prefect
320 pages
ISBN: 0345391802
Paperback (reprint)
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Science Fiction | Fantasy
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a
galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by
his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised
edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the
last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space
aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is
about the most massively useful thing an interstellar
hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers:
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;
Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed
robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is
obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he
bought over the years. Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do
we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For
all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't
forget to bring a towel!
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