The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By (author): "Douglas Adams"
Publish Date: October 12th 1979
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
ISBN0345391802
ISBN139780345391803
AsinThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
CharactersZaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Marvin, the pa
Original titleThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
SeriesHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1
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.Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.