By Douglas Adams (author) , Chris Riddell (illustrator) Part of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Illustrated series
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Even 30 years on this is still a fresh and funny series of stories, whether you read them or listen to the original BBC radio shows. The anarchic, or ‘random’ to use modern parlance, plot, place settings and characters makes them more appealing than a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster!
DON’T PANIC. Useful advice for Arthur Dent who is about to discover that along with his house, the Earth, is going to be destroyed by the Vogons and he is about to become embroiled in the search for the ultimate question to life the universe and everything (as we know the answer is 42).
'Sheer delight' - The TimesThis gorgeous 42nd Anniversary gift edition of Douglas Adams's pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is stunningly illustrated throughout by the award-winning Chris Riddell.It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large friendly letters, with the words: DON'T PANIC.The weekend has only just begun . . .Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with physics and twists time, but most importantly it's very, very funny.Praise for Douglas Adams:'One of the world's sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices' - Independent on Sunday'Magical . . . read this book' - Sunday Express'Weird and wonderful' - Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl seriesPraise for Chris Riddell:'Gorgeous' - Daily Mail'Each page is designed with retro elegance' - Sunday Times'Marvellously detailed to the eye' - The Independent
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'Sheer delight' - The Times This gorgeous 42nd Anniversary gift edition of Douglas Adams's pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , is stunningly illustrated throughout by the award-winning Chris Riddell. It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large friendly letters, with the words: DON'T PANIC. The weekend has only just begun . . . Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with physics and twists time, but most importantly it's very, very funny. Praise for Douglas Adams: 'One of the world's sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices' - Independent on Sunday 'Magical . . . read this book' - Sunday Express 'Weird and wonderful' - Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series Praise for Chris Riddell: 'Gorgeous' - Daily Mail 'Each page is designed with retro elegance' - Sunday Times 'Marvellously detailed to the eye' - The Independent
Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a cult British comic radio dramatist, amateur musician and author, most notably of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a towel, a comic book series, a computer game and a feature film that was completed after Adams's death. In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote or co-wrote three stories of the science fiction television series Doctor Who, and served the series as Script Editor during the seventeenth season. His other written works include the Dirk Gently novels, and co-author credits on two Liff books and Last Chance to See, itself based on a radio series. His fans and friends also knew Adams as an environmental activist, a self-described "radical atheist" and a lover of fast cars, cameras, the Macintosh computer, and other "techno gizmos." He was a keen technologist, using such inventions as e-mail and Usenet before they became widely popular, or even widely known. Since his death at the age of 49, he is still widely revered in science fiction and fantasy fandom circles.
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'Sheer delight' - The TimesThis gorgeous 42nd Anniversary gift edition of Douglas Adams's pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is stunningly illustrated throughout by the award-winning Chris Riddell.It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien.
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was written by Douglas Adams and published by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has 320 pages
Yes it is part of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Illustrated series
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