"IRRESISTIBLE!"
--The Boston Globe
Seconds before the 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 The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an
out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes
from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful
thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow
travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and
totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's
girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a
cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and
chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student
who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he
bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so
much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick
your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with
infectious joy".
--Publishers Weekly