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What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a 200-year-old Chronologist, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) and pizza have in common? Apparently not much - until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the human race from extinction along the way - at no extra charge. Cover art by Lionel Jeans. -
Dirk Gently's Holisitic Detective Agency: What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a 200-year-old Chronologist, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) and pizza have in common? Apparently not much - until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the human race from extinction along the way - at no extra charge. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul: When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, suddenly explodes through the roof engulfed in flame, the usual people tried to claim responsibility - the IRA, the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was under control, it was a one in a million chance, there was hardly any radioactive leakage and the explosion site would make a nice day out with the kids and a picnic - before finally admitting that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. There was no rational cause for the explosion - so it was designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why ? What God would be hanging around Heathrow's Terminal Two trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo? Cover art by Chris Moore.
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What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a 200-year-old Chronologist, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) and pizza have in common? Apparently not much - until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the human race from extinction along the way - at no extra charge. There's also a couple of ghosts involved along the way...Cover art by Lionel Jeans. -
Book III of the completely mis-named Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The inhabitants of planet Krikkit are perfectly happy until they experience a space ship crashing on their idyllic planet. So, they dismantle the wreckage, while singing little space ship stripping ditties and boldly venture into space. They decide they don't like the Universe and really - it has to go... so they plan to destroy it. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior and won an award for designing Norway; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows! Cover art by David Scutt. -
The fifth book in the ever-increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It's very easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time and the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. But instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and immediately all hell breaks loose. There is the usual Ford Prefect hell; a hellish new version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that behaves in a sinister, mysterious and airborne manner; and the unexpected hell of the arrival of a teenage girl who is Arthur's daughter - who he didn't know he had! -
The fifth book in the ever-increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It's very easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time and the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. But instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and immediately all hell breaks loose. There is the usual Ford Prefect hell; a hellish new version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that behaves in a sinister, mysterious and airborne manner; and the unexpected hell of the arrival of a teenage girl who is Arthur's daughter - who he didn't know he had!
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Book IV of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Arthur Dent finds love in the last place he would have expected to find it - but which 3,976,000,000 people find very familiar...and we discover God's Final Message to Mankind. Cover art by Gary Day-Ellison. -
Subtitle: A dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet! Such as... Clabby (adj.): A conversation struck up by a cleaning lady or commissionaire in order to avoid further work. The opening gambit is meant to provoke the maximum confusion and the longest clabby conversation. Or...Lowther (vb) To stand aimlessly about on the footpath after coming out of the cinema and argue about whether to go and eat a Chinese meal nearby or an Indian meal at a restaurant which someone says is very good but isn't certain where it is or just go home; or to have the Chinese meal nearby - by the time agreement is reached everything is shut. And many more definitions which are equally hilarious in true Adams fashion. Illustrated by Bert Kitchen. -
Contains: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Seconds before the Earth is demolished by a Vogon Constructor Fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent, clad in a dressing gown and pyjamas, 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 from Guildford.Together this dynamic pair begin a trek through space on the starship Heart Of Gold a ship powered by the Improbability Drive and which has been stolen by Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the galaxy (and Ford's cousin); Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formerly Tricia McMillan from Earth, whom Arthur had once tried to pick up at a cocktail party); Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and characters such as Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: If you've done six impossible things this morning, then why not round it off with breakfast, lunch or dinner at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? With your host, Max Quordlepleen! And - of course - Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and Marin the Paranoid Android as they have further intoxicating and intoxicated adventures around the galaxy, having found out what the Earth was actually for in the first place. Life, The Universe and Everything: Still on the trail of the Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything (or rather...we know what the answer is, but not the question...) The inhabitants of Krikkit, after a space ship crash on their idyllic planet, suddenly find they are NOT alone in the Universe and after having a quick look at it, they decide it's got to go. The universe, that is. Now all that stands between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation of everything except Krikket are Arthur Dent, still in his dressing gown and pjs; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice-president of the Campaign for Real Time and designer of Norway (with an award to prove it); Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed and now ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy Earth-girl space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a chronically depressed Zaphod. How will it all end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert cosmic Armageddon and save life as we know it –and don’t know it! So Long and Thanks For All The Fish: Having learnt to fly (by throwing himself at the ground and missing it) Arthur Dent wins a raffle and finds love in the last place he would have expected to find it - but which 3,976,000,000 people find very familiar...and we discover God's Final Message to Mankind. With a guest appearance by Marvin the Paranoid Android.
