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An edition of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months.

The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.


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Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
216

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Subjects

comic science fiction, Vogons, Humorous fiction, Imaginary voyages, wit and humour, Science Fiction, Interstellar travel, Fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Open Library Staff Picks, Life on other planets, Ford Prefect (Fictitious character), Arthur Dent (Fictitious character), Humorous stories, Viajes interplanetarios, Ficción, Language readers, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Radio plays, English literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, Dent, arthur (fictitious character), fiction, Prefect, ford (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Christian life, Indians of North America, Science-fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, New age movement, Fiction, action & adventure, English language, Adventure, Humorous, Action & adventure, General, Space opera, English & college success -> english -> fiction, English & college success -> english -> humor

People

Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin, Trisha MacMillan, Slartibartfast, Deep Thought

Places

Galaxy, Earth, Heart of Gold, Magrathea, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Cover of: Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi
Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi
2018, Alfa Yayinlari
paperback in Turkish - 10. Bassim
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2017, Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2017, Pan 70
Paperback in English - paperback edition (1)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Volume One in The Trilogy of Five
2016, Pan Books
paperback in English - printing (1)
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银河系搭车客指南: The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
2016-06-12, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she
Paperback in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2009, Pan Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
2005, Pan Books
paperback in English - Film Tie-in edition (9)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2002, New Millenium Audio
audio cd in English
Cover of: Le guide galactique
Le guide galactique
1997-10, Denoël
mass market paperback in French
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981-10, Pocket Books
mass market paperback in English - First Pocket Books Printing (1)
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1980, Book Club Associates
Hardcover in English

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Book Details

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
216

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31880071M
ISBN 13
9780345391803
OCLC/WorldCat
33348186
Wikidata
Q116980478

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
added anonymously.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
added by Lisa.

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