The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy / Douglas Adams

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an outofwork actor.Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide (A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have) and a galaxyfull of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebroxthe twoheaded, threearmed exhippie and totally outtolunch president of the galaxy Trillian, Zaphods girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years...