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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXYby Adams, Douglas
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Book DescriptionHarmony, NY, 1989, 14th Printing 12 mo., hardcover, VG in lightly edgeworn dj. Answers burning questions: why are we born, why do we die, why doe we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches. 215 pp.. Book summaryTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is not just a book--it's a phenomenon. It's based on a BBC radio series that also spawned four other books, a TV series, a 2005 film, a text-based computer adventure game, and a website. As the story begins, Arthur Dent is having a bad day. First, the town council knocked his house down to build a local bypass. Then a fleet of alien spaceships blew up his planet to make way for an intragalactic bypass. Can things get any worse? Possibly. Having been rescued from the Earth's destruction by his friend Ford Prefect, Arthur embarks upon a hectic, hysterically funny adventure that includes torturously bad poetry, a depressed robot, the two-headed President of the Galaxy (currently on the lam), and the legendary planet-building planet of Magrathea. Arthur's only consolation is the wise advice printed on the cover of that classic tome, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: "Don't Panic." HITCHHIKER'S has developed a cult classic status that extends beyond SF fans, and people enjoy swapping quotes from it in much the same way that they exchange quotes from MONTY PYTHON. Although there is an extensive crop of British writers who write humorous fantasy in much the same vein, such as Terry Pratchett and Tom Holt, no one has quite been able to make the splash in satirical SF that Adams has.Media Reviews"[T]he novel...remains, without a doubt, the most cheerful book about the total destruction of Earth and its entire population minus one ever written." -- Gerald Jonas, New York Times Book Review First Line"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." Publisher NotesA special edition of this cult classic. Together, Arthur Dent and Ford Perfect begin their now famous intergalactic journey through time, space, and best-sellerdom. It is the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, bestselling novel, and to celebrate, here is a reissue of the cult classic. Other Recommended Books
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