"This is the story of Arthur Dent who seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a
galactic freeway is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect who has been posing as
an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised
edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the
galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with the words don't panic
written on the front. ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar
hitchhiker can have."). In their travels they meet: Zaphod Beeblebrox-the two-headed
three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the Galaxy Trillian-Zaphod's girl
friend formerly Tricia McMillan whom Arthur once tried to pick up at a cocktail party
Marvin-a paranoid android a brilliant but chronically depressed robot Veet Voojagig-former
graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the
years. To find the answers to these burning questions: Why are we born? Why do we die? And why
do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy. But remember -- don't panic and don't forget to bring a towel. The story of a British
earthling plucked from his planet and his subsequent adventures elsewhere in the
universe."--Provided by publisher.
