Thursday, January 30, 2020

#tbt: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Image of 25th Anniversary Edition: Penguin Random House

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. 224 p. Random House Publishing Group.

#tbt features The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide started out as a BBC radio show in 1978 written by Adams. They turned down his offer to novelize the show so he took the material to another publisher. The book was published in the UK in 1979 and was a immediate best seller. It is book one of an enormously popular and hilarious five-part trilogy. It has been turned into video games, a television show and a movie. Planet Earth is about to be destroyed to make way for an intergalactic highway ramp but Arthur Dent escapes with his alien friend, Ford Prefect, who is writing a book called, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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