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ADAMS DOUGLAS THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

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 original radio show on which the book was based.  Nominated as one of
America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read  Seconds before 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 began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers:
Zaphod Beeblebrox-the two-headed  three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of
the galaxy  Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan)  Zaphod's girlfriend  whom Arthur tried to pick
up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone  Marvin  a paranoid  brilliant  and chronically
depressed robot  and Veet Voojagig  a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance
of all the ballpoint pens he's bought over the years.  Where are these pens? Why are we born?
Why do we die? For all the answers  stick your thumb to the stars!  Praise for The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy  "A whimsical oddyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with
infectious joy."-Publishers Weekly  "Irresistable!"-The Boston Globe

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