Rank 88 of 100
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Also known as Hitchhiker's Guide
Synopsis
Arthur Dent is lying in front of a bulldozer to save his house when his friend reveals that the Earth itself is about to be demolished for a hyperspace bypass. Adams sends him across the universe with a towel, a depressed robot, and a guidebook whose advice is more useful than it sounds.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1979
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Science fiction, Satire
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Comic science fiction
- Series
- The Hitchhiker's Guide
- Length
- About 224 pages
- Reported copies
- Over 14 million copies of the first book; the series far more
- Kind
- Fiction