The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.

For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun.

“Extremely funny... inspired lunacy... [and] over much too soon.”
- The Washington Post Book World

Now Celebrating The Pivotal 42nd Anniversary Of The Original Radio Show On Which The Book Was Based.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy of five books" by Douglas Adams, with a sixth book written by Eoin Colfer.