The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide

Five Complete Novels and One Story

1979 • 756 pages

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Average rating4.4

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In one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchhiker series.

Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read)
Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The moment before annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.

Life, the Universe and Everything
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky– so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription thrusts him back to reality. So to speak.

Mostly Harmless
Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?

Includes the bonus story “Young Zaphod Plays It Safe”

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 9-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1979 with contributions by Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer.


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Read this one in high school and realized I hadn't yet rated.

February 20, 2018

Hardly a month goes by that I don't mention a scene or another from this book / radio drama.

February 26, 1999

It would've been better if I'd stopped at the first book which I liked very much. From here on I was just very lost.

January 10, 2021

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