The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A special 42nd anniversary edition of Douglas Adams' mega-selling cult classic: now in one handy paperback volume!

One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius

Dazzlingly inventive

Fizzing with ideas . . . Brilliant

Really entertaining and fun

Much funnier than anything John Cleese has written

I know for a fact that John Cleese hasn’t read it

Who is John Cleese?

Really entertaining and fun

I haven’t known many geniuses in my life. Some brilliantly smart people, but only a tiny handful would I class as geniuses. I would class Douglas, because he saw things differently, and he was capable of communicating the way he saw things, and once he explained things the way he saw them, it was almost impossible to see them the way you used to see them

Hitchhiker’s is packed with that unique energy, all barmy and bristling and bold. This book can be witty, iconoclastic, godless, savage, sweet, surreal, but above all, it dares to be silly. Fiercely, beautifully silly

Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.

In addition to the Hitchhiker series, He is also the author of the Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul as well as the non-fiction Last Chance To See and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.