《The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy》是Random House Audio出版的圖書，作者是Douglas Adams，Stephen Fry
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780739322208
- 作者：Douglas Adams、Stephen Fry
- 出版社：Random House Audio
- 出版時間：2005年3月29日
- 定價：USD 27.95
- 裝幀：Audio CD
內容簡介
"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 sp...(展開全部) "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 From the Paperback edition. 道格拉斯·亞當斯（1952—2001），英國作家，畢業於劍橋大學。主要作品就是銀河系漫遊五部曲。包括《銀河系漫遊指南》、《宇宙盡頭餐館》、《生命、宇宙及一切》、《再見，謝謝魚》和《基本無害》。這個系列被西方科幻讀者奉為“科幻聖經”之一。由於銀河系漫遊系列小說的突出成就，國際小行星管理委員會甚至還將一顆小行星命名為阿瑟·鄧特——該系列的主人公。 2001年，亞當斯因心臟病猝發離世——此前正在與好萊塢製片商合作，共同將《銀河系漫遊指南》搬上銀
