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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune
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...

To make way for a new intergalactic highway, the Earth is slated for demolition. Just moments before the explosion, Arthur Dent is rescued from the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect. Unbeknownst to Arthur, Ford is actually a researcher who is revising a guide for space travel. Together, they seek out the meaning of life and death, meeting a variety of characters along the way, including a depressed, paranoid android, an obsessive former graduate...

This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with the words...