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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Science Fiction Novel by Douglas Adams
Book 1 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Humorous Science Fiction,
- Space Opera,
- British Humor
This book is for you if you're into...
- Absurd space adventures with dry British humor
- Eccentric characters like a depressed robot and a two-headed president
- Sci-fi that pokes fun at big questions and daily life
From Little Stack
In sharp contrast to Foundation, you have what is one of the earliest “cozy” sci-fi adventures. Douglas Adams writes with all the dry, sharp British humor I adore, and brings to brilliant life the adventures of Arthur Dent hurtling through space with his towel (a must-have for any galactic traveler).
The characters are hilarious, the situations bordering on the insane (torture by Vogon poetry readings), and yet there is so much heart and humor, it’s an endlessly good time. Often silly, always clever, and a book any serious sci-fi reader needs for an occasional break from too-serious sci-fi sagas.
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.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
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