TheHitchhiker\'sGuidetotheGalaxy

BY DOUGLAS ADAMS: Published by The Random House Publishing Group The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, the Universe and Everything So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Mostly Harmless The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Salmon of Doubt Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency The Long Tea-Time of the Soul The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts The Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd) Last Chance to See (with Mark Cowardine) The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd) for Jonny Brock and Clare Gorst and all other Arlingtonians for tea, sympathy and a sofa F ar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutio......