The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Douglas Adams
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cultural exploration
- Time of Work: Before Earth existed to the end of time
- Setting: Throughout the universe
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Extraterrestrial life, Space flight or travel, 1980’s, England or English people, Time travel, Science fiction, Earth, Space and time, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Robots or robotics, Computers, Universe, Dolphins
- Locales: Space, England, Fictional planets
The Plot
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series is a unique trilogy, as it originally was called, in that by 1992 it consisted of five novels and a short story and still had yet to be concluded definitively. It began as a radio series broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) beginning in 1978 and ending in 1980. Many fans of the story became acquainted with it through recordings of the old radio shows, the scripts of which were published as The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts. A television version of the series was broadcast by the BBC in 1981. There...
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