The Hitchhikers Guide by Douglas Adams

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is a Science Fiction comedy series by the renowned author Douglas Adams. Originally a radio series, the Hitchhikers guide has also been a TV series and more recently a feature film.

The plot involves a fairly ordinary human called Arthur Dent and his hitchhiking Alien friend Ford Prefect, as they leave earth shortly before it is destroyed to make way for an intersteller bypass by the Vogons.

An absolutly incredible series of novels, composing of a 6 part trilogy, the last novel has been written by Eoin Colfer from notes left by the late Douglas Adams.

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The Hitchhikers Guide

by Douglas Adams

This Omnibus Edition Includes the First 4 books in the "Hitchhikers guide Trilogy" 5 book set.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is also the title of the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series 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 in October 1979.

The novel takes its name the fictional The Hitch...

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reviewed on Sunday 01 February 2009

The Salmon of Doubt

by Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt, Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams, published in 2001. English editions of the book were published in the USA and UK in May 2002, exactly one year after the author's death. It consists largely of a compilation of essays, most of which have a technological edge, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working when he died (and from which the coll...

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reviewed on Sunday 20 July 2008

Mostly Harmless

by Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless is a novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book of a four part trilogy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The title derives from a joke early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety, of the word "Harmless." His friend Ford Prefect, a contributor to the Guide, assures him that the next edition will contain the article on Earth that Ford has spent the last 15 years r...

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reviewed on Friday 20 July 2007