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      The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

      by Douglas Adams
      Published
      Jan 1979
      Main Genre
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      224
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      Hitchhiker's Guide Book 1

      About This Book

      Seconds before Earth 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 first fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

      Together, this dynamic pair begin 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 those pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars!

      Series Placement

      Book 1
      🟡 Mostly Standalone
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Science Fiction Space Opera

      Characters & Occupations

      Aliens

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under)

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