The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Softcover

Adams, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330508113 ISBN 13: 9780330508117

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show, TV show, stage play, comic book and film, and is and a work of utter comic genius from Douglas Adams.One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. It's the final straw for Arthur Dent, who has already had his house bulldozed that morning. But for Arthur, that is only the beginning ., . . In the seconds before global obliteration, Arthur is plucked from the planet by his friend Ford Prefect - and together the pair venture out across the galaxy on the craziest, strangest road trip of all time.

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Review:

Don't panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

"It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive."

Washington Post

"The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions."

Chicago Tribune

"Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves."

School Library Journal

"As parody, it's marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it's, well, hysterical."

Book Description:

Losing your planet isn't the end of the world . . . Douglas Adams's mega-selling cult classic!

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0330508113
• ISBN 13: 9780330508117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208