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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!

“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.

Among Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally).

Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhiker’s Guide deleted the term “Future Perfect” from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!

“What’s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams’s sardonically silly eyes.”—Detroit Free Press

Reviewer: Andrea Hall-Cuccia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another Fun Romp in the Universe
Review: This book continues to be rife with Douglas Adams' signature humor. The restaurant scenes are inventive, if a little disturbing. Marvin the Paranoid Android is back and has his moment in the sun. Ford and the others continue to romp across the universe having adventures. All in all, a fun continuation of the series.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The crew of the Heart of Gold go to the end of the Universe for breakfast.
Review: Author Douglas Adams brings us the next adventure in his Hitchhikers Guild to the Galaxy trilogy with the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Picking up where book one left off Author Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Zaphod are being hunted by the Zogon who demolished Earth. He chases them until the Heart of Gold, the ship that Zaphod stole vanishes. Zaphod and Marvin the robot find themselves on the planet where the Hitchhikers Guild to the Galaxy are published and that the building that they're in is being taken from that planet to the Frogstar world B. All this thanks to Zaphod's great great Gradfather. While on the Forgstar planet Zaphod is taken to the Total Perspective Vortex where he is shown that he is the most important person in the universe. After they find Zaniwoop, Zaphod asks the Heart of Gold's computer to take to the nearest Restaurant which happens to me Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. This is a great book and it's fun rereading it and it makes me look forward to reading the next book in the trilogy, Life the Universe and Everything. I highly recommend this series to all science fiction fans.

Reviewer: Douglas J McKay
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great read
Review: A great read no matter how many times you read it, still like the muck up in chapter 33……6 by 9 is 42🤭 .

Reviewer: Jay holl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Marvin
Review: I love Marvin and he really shines in this book. If you like a humorous scifi genre this book is for you.

Reviewer: Ricardo Jasso Moedano
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: stellar drollery
Review: The very first paragraphs of this volume had me in stitches, but my tittilating state lasted only from chapters 1 to 6, and then I gasped in astonishment at how evanescent the jocularity of this book turned out. I trudged on til chapter 22, hankering for yet more batty occurrences, yet all that followed after the frogfighters bombing of the Guide tower lacked the sparkle of the beginning of the story. Or, perhaps, by now I wanted to tread along a coherent storyline, rather than just having various nonsensical contraptions described (like the glasses that went black before a sign of danger, in order to keep him who wore them from looking at anything that might scare him), as well as a series of glimpses of bizarre environments where the characters appear at, only to relate goofy anecdotes concerning alien species and their queer customs.While I jumped off the vessel bound to clash with the sun, not caring a bit for what happened to the guys aboard (or even clear on who these were), I nevertheless enjoyed the tone of the novel, since its kind of humour is consonant with that of ALF (remember the furry bloke that crash-landed on the Tanner's house in the NBC show of the same name?). Indeed, all the tales ALF told about his previous life in Melmac, his native planet, which also exploded (due, however, to the unfortunate circumstance of everyone plugging their hair-driers in at the same time)... all his tales bear, so to speak, Douglas Adams' comedy seal. I seriously suspect the producers of ALF explored (and, it would seem, imported him from) the Hitchhiker's saga.

Reviewer: Amanda Richards
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: How do you follow up a work of genius.....?
Review: .... With more of the same.While not so good as a stand alone (you'll be lost in time & space without the background of Book 1), this second in the umpteen-part, increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy tries even harder than the first to laser your funny bone.Seems that the thing we call (ultimately to be used-to-call) Earth is really just a mighty big supercomputer, built to work out the ultimate question to the ultimate answer, 42. Like all expensive software however, just before it actually does whatever it's supposed to do, it crashes - in this case due to the hacker Vogons and their total annihilation programme. Unlike your regular hard drive, two bits escape to byte another day, and we continue their story.In one of the many funny lines from the book, Zaphod Beeblebrox remarks, "I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis". This book is just as hip.Our heroes are aboard their Improbability Driven spaceship, when Arthur Dent happens to tie up all the computer circuits just when the Vogons are launching an attack. Zaphod decides its time to see dead people, and with a strange twist, he and miserable Marvin, the depressed computer, disappear, while Arthur takes a tea break.Zaphod materializes elsewhere and immediately starts looking for the man who rules the Universe, while Marvin continues to depress and be depressed. In my humble opinion, Marvin is the star of this book, but I digress.After having his sense of perspective sorely tested, Zaphod improbably conjures a happy reunion, although this leaves him sadly out of pocket. Deciding that they should find the nearest place to eat, their ship's computer zaps them to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.From this half-way point, the book takes off on a fresh tangent of humor, floor shows, loud rock bands, talking meat, and wicked vehicles - that is, until the universe ends.Then the humor starts all over again.A very worthy follow up to the famous first.Amanda Richards, March 7, 2005

Reviewer: zpm
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Maybe not as ruthlessly original as, well, the original, but better than a Vogon poem
Review: Let the naysayers say their nays. Sure, it’s no Hitchikers, but nothing was before that book, and nothing will be again. Unless we’re all living in a loop. In that case, Hitchikers will, eventually, be Hitchikers, again, er, for the first time.I read it to my 1- and 3-year-old a little each day or so at bedtime. Maybe I changed some words and skipped a few bits, but they could tell it was pretty silly, for a more a grown-up book than they’re used to.Bottom line: It’s worth a read, which is a fair bit better than any of us should be saying about a lot of what’s written these days.Including book reviews. 🙃

Reviewer: Mr. Redmond
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Fun and delightful novel for the whole family.

Reviewer: Bob
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A must have.

Reviewer: Rosalba Ramirez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Fue lo que pedi

Reviewer: Thomas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Fun, like the others from the same author.

Reviewer: Avirup Chakraborty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Satire, comedy and a bit of spooky science laced with fiction. Quite engrossing. A genuine delight to read and ponder afterwords.