Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/><b>SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES - Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original radio show on which the book was based.</b> <p/><b>Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's <i>The Great American Read</i></b> <p/>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 <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy </i>who for the last fifteen years has been posing as an out-of-work actor. <p/>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. <p/>Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars! <p/><b>Praise for <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i></b> <p/>A whimsical oddyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy.<b>--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <p/>Irresistable!<b>--</b><i><b>The Boston Globe</b></i>