The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition

Resumen del libro

A beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic, timed to celebrate the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original publication with never-before-seen illustrations by award winner Chris Riddell



SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES Extremely funny inspired lunacy and over much too soon. The Washington Post Book World

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Seconds before 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 a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod's girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he's bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars!

Biografía del autor

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) va escriure inicialment la Guia Galàctica per autoestopistes (The Hitchhikerx{0026} x02019;s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979) com una sèrie radiofònica per a la BBC, i va ser més tard que la va transformar en una novel-la. Lx{0026} x02019;èxit tan radiofònic com literari el va dur a escriure una triologia de cinc parts: The Hitchhikerx{0026} x02019;s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Mostly Harmless. Va escriure dues novel-les dx{0026} x02019;èxit com Dirk Gentlyx{0026} x02019;s Holistic Detective Agency i The long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.