# The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

**Douglas Adams**  
  
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.” —The Washington Post Book World.

SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_! Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s _The Great American Read_.

**It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished.** The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien. After that, things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens.

Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ . . . which helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.

**Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.** Now, if you could only figure out the question . . .