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
Über den Autor Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams, geboren 1952 in Cambridge, ist der Autor von Romanen, Sachbüchern Radiosendungen und TV-Serien. Die Idee zu seinem bekanntesten Werk, die Kult-Saga Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis, kam ihm, als er nach einem Kneipenbesuch in Innsbruck angetrunken auf einem Acker lag und in die Sterne schaute. Um die Verfilmung des Anhalters zu unterstützen, zog er 1999 mit seiner Familie nach Kalifornien, wo er 2001 überraschend starb. Zu seinem Gedenken findet jährlich am 25. Mai der sogenannte Handtuchtag statt.
