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Hitchhiker's Guide #1 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By: Pocket Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Pocket Books)

Last Stocked on 6/20/2015

Product Info

Title
Hitchhiker's Guide #1 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Douglas Adams
Publish Year
1988
Pages
216
Dimensions
4.5x7x1"
NKG Part #
2147571845
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

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.