{"id":87,"date":"2025-07-02T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/book\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-25th-anniversary-edition-a-novel\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:01:55","slug":"the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-25th-anniversary-edition-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/?book=the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-25th-anniversary-edition-a-novel","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">BESTSELLER \u2022&nbsp;\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><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES \u2022&nbsp;Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd&nbsp;anniversary of the original radio show on which the book was based.<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Nominated as one of America\u2019s best-loved novels by PBS\u2019s&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Great American Read<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>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&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\">The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy&nbsp;<\/span><span>who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.<\/p>\n<p>Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox\u2014the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod\u2019s 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\u2019s bought over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Praise for&nbsp;<\/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>NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp;BESTSELLER \u2022&nbsp;\u201cExtremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.\u201d\u2014The Washington Post Book World SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES \u2022&nbsp;Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd&nbsp;anniversary of the original radio show on which the book was based. 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