The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
About this book
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months.
The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.
Also contained in:
- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts
- The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide
- Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Subjects
- action & adventure
- adventure
- arthur dent (fictitious character)
- christian life
- comic science fiction
- dent, arthur (fictitious character), fiction
- english & college success -> english -> fiction
- english & college success -> english -> humor
- english language
- english literature
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, humorous
- fiction, humorous, general
- fiction in english
- fiction, science fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, science fiction, general
- ford prefect (fictitious character)
- general
- humorous
- humorous fiction
- humorous stories
- imaginary voyages
- indians of north america
- interplanetary voyages
- interstellar travel
- language readers
- life on other planets
- new age movement
- open library staff picks
- prefect, ford (fictitious character), fiction
- radio plays
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- science fiction
- science-fiction
- space opera
- viajes interplanetarios
- vogons
- wit and humour