The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - S.F. Masterworks

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Arthur Dent thought his day was going badly when someone tried to demolish his house.

Then someone demolished his planet.

Rescuedby his friend Ford - who is not a human from Guilford, but an alienfrom somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse - Arthur is flung into anadventure among the stars. He will face aliens, robots, world-builders,and that girl he quite fancied who turned him down at a party one time.All in the name of research for the greatest book in the galaxy.

He just has to remember not to panic.

Part of the multi-media phenomenon The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy isbeloved the world over. Douglas Adams' 'trilogy in five parts'originated as a radio show, developed into a book series, and has sincespawned a TV series, a film, additional sequels and expanded radioseries, a famously impossible video game, and a number of stage shows.It was a Sunday Times bestseller,and ranked fourth in a 2003 BBC poll to find the Nation's Best-Loved Book.

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'DouglasAdams's inspired melding of hippy-trail guidebook and sci-fi comedyturned its novelisations into a publishing phenomenon' - Guardian

'In a sense that only time can test, it could be said that theHitchhiker's Guide has become folklore' - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

'Douglas was a genius, and that's not actually a word I toss around very lightly or use very much' - Neil Gaiman