The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Random House Worlds, Dec 24, 2008 - Fiction - 256 pages
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
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
4
Section 3
13
Section 4
28
Section 5
30
Section 6
36
Section 7
50
Section 8
55
Section 19
141
Section 20
145
Section 21
152
Section 22
162
Section 23
169
Section 24
174
Section 25
188
Section 26
190

Section 9
61
Section 10
69
Section 11
76
Section 12
79
Section 13
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Section 14
91
Section 15
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Section 16
101
Section 17
110
Section 18
130
Section 27
195
Section 28
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Section 29
198
Section 30
208
Section 31
216
Section 32
219
Section 33
233
Section 34
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About the author (2008)

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.

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