The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
Uniform title:	Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (Novel)
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Harmony Books, ©1979.
Description:	215 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Prefect, Ford -- Fiction. Dent, Arthur -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Dent, Arthur -- (Fictitious character) Prefect, Ford. Humorous stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11366259

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ISBN:	9781400052929 1400052920 0517542099 9780517542095 0802409745 9780802409744
Notes:	Originally published: London : Pan Books, 1979.
Summary:	Overview: How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.-Or- This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.-or- This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with the words don't panic written on the front. ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."). In their travels they meet: Zaphod Beeblebrox-the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the Galaxy; Trillian-Zaphod's girl friend, formerly Tricia McMillan, whom Arthur once tried to pick up at a cocktail party; Marvin-a paranoid android, a brilliant but chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig-former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. To find the answers to these burning questions: Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But remember -- don't panic, and don't forget to bring a towel. The story of a British earthling plucked from his planet, and his subsequent adventures elsewhere in the universe.

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Call Number:	PR6051.D3352 H5 1979
c.1	Checked out Request via Interlibrary Loan Need help? - Ask a Librarian Notes: Gift of Jonathan Catlin