Life, the Universe, and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

If you listen in pieces — commute, chores, late night — Life, the Universe, and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) by Douglas Adams keeps its place in this browser.

“Wild satire…. The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.” ( Chicago Tribune ) The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads – so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.   They are Arthur Dent, a 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; 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 as they try to avert “universal” Armageddon and save life as we know it – and don’t know it! “Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.” ( Arizona Daily Star ) Listen to the rest of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy”. Want to learn more about the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie? Listen to this interview with Robbie Stamp, close friend of Douglas Adams and executive producer of the film. ©1982 Serious Productions, Ltd. (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

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