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By (author) Adams Douglas
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Part three of the Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from Simon Brett, producer of the original radio broadcast.
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‘One of the world”s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices’ – Independent on Sunday
This 42nd Anniversary Edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Simon Brett, producer of the original radio broadcast.
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams” blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, The Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy,
Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war.
Following a number of stunning catastrophes, which have involved him being alternately blown up and insulted in ever stranger regions of the Galaxy, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. An eddy in the space-time continuum lands him, Ford Prefect, and their flying sofa in the middle of the cricket ground at Lord”s, just two days before the world is due to be destroyed by the Vogons.
Escaping the end of the world for a second time, Arthur, Ford, and their old friend Slartibartfast embark (reluctantly) on a mission to save the whole galaxy from fanatical robots. Not bad for a man in his dressing gown . . .
Follow Arthur Dent”s galactic (mis)adventures in the rest of the trilogy with five parts: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.
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Praise for Douglas Adams:
”Sheer delight” – The Times
”A pleasure to read” – New York Times
”Magical . . . read this book” – Sunday Express
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One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius
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Dazzlingly inventive
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Fizzing with ideas . . . Brilliant
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It changed my whole life. It”s literally out of this world
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Really entertaining and fun
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Hitchhiker’s is packed with that unique energy, all barmy and bristling and bold. This book can be witty, iconoclastic, godless, savage, sweet, surreal, but above all, it dares to be silly. Fiercely, beautifully silly
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He had almost a Wodehousian style and some of his phrases and jokes entered our language. He changed the way people spoke
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There has never been another writer remotely like Douglas Adams. He discovered a completely new genre – scientific wit – and having discovered it he raised it to dizzying heights
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Quite good I suppose, if you like brilliantly entertaining books written with a touch of imaginative genius
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Very occasionally a book comes along that changes the way you laugh and what you laugh about
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One of the world’s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices
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Sheer delight
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Magical . . . read this book
Biographical note:
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where
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