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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker's Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and British sitcoms.

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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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Ford Prefect is a researcher for the revised edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  He has been disguised as a human for the last 15 or so years while he has been researching Earth.  Just before the world is about to be blown up by a group of hostile starships, Ford rescues a newfound human friend, Arthur Dent.  He beams Arthur and himself up to the starship, but eventually the captain of the ship find they are onboard and throws them out the airlock.  By a near impossible feat they are picked up by another ship exactly 29 seconds later.

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