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Life, the universe, and everything

Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: New York : Ballantine, ©1995.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : 1st Ballantine books edView all editions and formats
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The third installment of the zany Hitchhiker series finds Arthur Dent, reluctant space and time traveler, and his wacky entourage on a mission to prevent the destruction of the universe by killer robots. The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads, so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fantasy fiction
Humorous stories
Fiction
Humorous fiction
Science fiction
Fantastic fiction
Named Person: Ford Prefect; Arthur Dent, (Fictitious character); Arthur Dent, (Fictitious character); Ford Prefect
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas Adams
ISBN: 0345391829 9780345391827 9781417618163 1417618167
OCLC Number: 33352254
Description: 232 pages ; 18 cm
Responsibility: Douglas Adams.

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The third installment of the zany Hitchhiker series finds Arthur Dent, reluctant space and time traveler, and his wacky entourage on a mission to prevent the destruction of the universe by killer robots. The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads, so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it and don't know it! "Adams" is one of those rare treasures, an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."

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