{"id":83,"date":"2025-07-02T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/book\/mostly-harmless-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-book-5\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:01:52","slug":"mostly-harmless-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-book-5","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/?book=mostly-harmless-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-book-5","title":{"rendered":"Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy Book 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy,<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">&nbsp;soon to be a Hulu original series!<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\"> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here\u2019s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.\u201d\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The New York Times Book Review<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space\/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit\u2014and immediately all hell breaks loose.<\/p>\n<p>Hell takes a number of forms: there\u2019s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn\u2019t even know he had one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cDouglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.\u201d\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Washington Post Book World<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of&nbsp;The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy,&nbsp;soon to be a Hulu original series! \u201cHitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here\u2019s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.\u201d\u2014The New York Times Book Review It\u2019s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"parent":0,"template":"","book-category":[23,24,10,9,11],"book-series":[],"book-author":[19],"class_list":["post-83","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\/83","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\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-category&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"book-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-author&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}