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The Hitchhiker Trilogy |
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| • Overview • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe • Life, the Universe and Everything • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish • Mostly Harmless • Further Exploration • | |
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The five novels that compose the Trilogy relate the comic adventures of Ford Prefect, a researcher for the best-selling Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Recurring characters include the humans Arthur Dent and Tricia McMillan (Trillian) and Zaphod Beeblebrox, once president of the Galazy but now on the run with the Heart of Gold, a stolen spaceship equipped with anInfinite Improbability Guide. Ford Prefect lives by the key advice of the Guide: Don't Panic. These novels are best read as comic adventures in space and time with an emphasis on clever wordplay. |
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
| 1979 | |
Preview: Just before Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspatialfreeway, Ford Prefect, a researcher for the best-selling travel book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, grabs Arthur Dent and they hitch a ride on the destroying vessel. When they get ejected by the Vogons, they end up on the stolen spaceship Heart of Gold, powerd by an Improbability Drive and captained by Zaphod Beeblebrox, ex-president of the Galaxy. They find the mythical lost planet of Magrathea where the Magrathean planet designer Slartibartfast explains how Earth was about to calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer when it was destroyed. |
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| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | |
| 1980 | |
| Preview: Zaphod Beeblerox has been set the task of finding the man who rules the Universe; Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect find themselves on prehistoric Earth. | |
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| Life, the Universe and Everything | |
| 1982 | |
Preview: Five years after the event of The Restarant at the End of the Universe, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect take advantage of an instability in the space-time continuum to journey to present-day Earth. Slartibartfast recruits Dent and Prefect to help thwart the Krikkit attempt to retrieve the Key to unlock the planet so that they can continue to destroy the Galaxy. |
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| So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish | |
| 1984 | |
| Preview: Arthur Dent finds himself back on a restored Earth where he falls in love and also determines to learn God's Final Message to His Creatures. | |
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| Mostly Harmless | |
| 1992 | |
| Preview: Causality and probablility conspire to ensure that whatever happens happens. Arthur Dent meets his destiny. | |
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| Further Exploration | |
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