The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b><br><br><b>SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of <i>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i>!</b><br><br><b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien.<br><br>After that, things get much, much worse.<br><br>With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is <i>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i> . . . which helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.<br><br>Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.<br><br>Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .