{"id":75,"date":"2025-07-02T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/book\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-the-illustrated-edition\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:01:48","slug":"the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-the-illustrated-edition","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/?book=the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-the-illustrated-edition","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cExtremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.\u201d\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Washington Post Book World<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>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 <\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\">The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/span><span> who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.<\/p>\n<p>Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide (\u201cA towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have\u201d) and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox\u2014the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t forget to bring a towel!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Praise for <\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA whimsical oddyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Publishers Weekly<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIrresistable!\u201d<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Boston Globe<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExtremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.\u201d\u2014The Washington Post Book World 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\u2019s Guide to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"parent":0,"template":"","book-category":[23,24,10,9,11],"book-series":[],"book-author":[19],"class_list":["post-75","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book-category-action-adventure","book-category-fantasy","book-category-kindle-ebooks","book-category-kindle-store","book-category-literature-fiction","book-author-douglas-adams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-category&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"book-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-author&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}