The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Like I said, we are here to talk about the novels. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Books in Order: Every year since 2001, on 25 May, Towel Day is celebrated as a tribute to Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy developed into a “trilogy” of five books that sold more than 15 million copies. Rescued by his friend Ford Prefect, a human-like alien writer for the travel guide The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Dent explores the galaxy with Ford and encounters Trillian, another human formerly known as Tricia McMillan, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford’s eccentric semi-cousin and the Galactic President, and the depressed robot Marvin the Paranoid Android. The story revolves around Arthur Dent, the last surviving man following the demolition of the planet Earth by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass. But we are here to talk about the novels. Originally created by English author and screenwriter Douglas Adams as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy–or H2G2 for short–was also adapted into stage shows, comic books, a TV series (in 1981), a computer game (in 1984) and finally in a feature film (in 2005). What is The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy about? If you like Douglas Adams, go check out the holistic detective Dirk Gently. Cut adrift in a strange universe, his planet a smoking ruin, he frequently has to be reminded of the friendly advice inscribed on the cover of his new guidebook: DON’T PANIC.Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon. Ford knows how to see the Marvels of the Universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day, and is overjoyed to be back on the road.

In this, the first of his ‘trilogy of five’, he introduces Earthbound readers to Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, the Babel fish and the stolen Heart of Gold starship.

ĭouglas Adams brilliantly combines science fiction with the finest tradition of English humour. Seconds before the planet is vaporised, Arthur and Ford escape by hitching a lift on the flagship of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. Luckily for Arthur Dent, his friend Ford Prefect turns out to be an alien from Betelgeuse and ‘a roving researcher for that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. The earth is about to be demolished by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspatial express route.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams