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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 text adventure game, and 2005 feature film.
Oct 12, 1979 · Douglas Adams. 4.23. 1,852,564 ratings46,283 reviews. Seconds before the 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.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first book (1979) in the highly popular series of comic science fiction novels by British writer Douglas Adams. The saga mocks modern society with humor and cynicism. Its hero, a hapless Englishman, finds himself adrift in a universe characterized by randomness and absurdity.
Sep 27, 1995 · Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway.
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The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name, centering on the adventures of the only man to survive the destruction of Earth; while roaming outer space, he comes to learn the truth behind Earth's existence. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. [2]
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams. 6 primary works • 19 total works. Each book in the series is (mostly) a whole story with a beginning and an end; however, the plot (and characters) of every book relies very heavily on the prior books in the series. Series also known as: * Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti [Italian]
