Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy. Praise for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars! Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox-the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he’s bought over the years. Its ability to be read by pretty much anyone (and to tell you pretty much anything you need to know about anything) is both a key selling point and a major feature. Seconds before 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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Note that the guide is not a printed work but rather an e-book. Giving the universe such famous persons as Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox and renowned Guide field researcher Ford Prefect, when you visit you will see how rough they had it. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Nestled deep in the Milky Way Galaxy, in the vicinity of the Betelgeuse star system is the small planet of Betelgeuse 5.
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