A Trilogy in Five Parts. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Mostly Harmless
THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to
make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, whose house
was demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he
can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and
the Galaxy is a very, very, very large and startling place.
THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
When all questions of space, time, and matter and the nature of
being have been resolved, only one question remains - 'Where
shall we have dinner?'. The restaurant at the end of the
universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once
there is no morning after to worry about.
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent
finds himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric
earth. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big
and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it
are staggeringly unfair.
SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Just as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state
he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams - in the last place in the
universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but
which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in
search of God's Final Message to his Creation and, in a
dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.
MOSTLY HARMLESS
It's 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, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames
and all you have to fall back on are a few sandwich-making skills.
And all hell really breaks loose for Arthur Dent with the arrival
of his daughter and a mission to save the Earth.
"It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive." Washington Post 20031022 "The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions." Chicago Tribune 20031022 "Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves." School Library Journal 20031022 "A sci-fi book, packed full of adventure and humour" The Guardian
Douglas Adams wurde 1952 in Cambridge, England geboren. Nach dem Studium bewegte er sich in der Szene um die Monty-Python-Gruppe. Von 1978 bis 1980 war er Redakteur bei der BBC. Dort schrieb er auch das Hörspiel "Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis" ( "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"). Die Ausstrahlung wurde ein großer Erfolg, und Douglas Adams machte ein Buch daraus, das zum Weltbestseller wurde. Zwei Jahre später erschien "Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums", der zweite Teil des "Anhalters". Es folgten 1982 der dritte Band, "Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest", 1984 Band vier, "Macht's gut und danke für den Fisch", und als Abschluß der "fünfbändigen Trilogie" 1992 "Einmal Rupert und zurück". Diese fünf Bücher blieben nicht die einzigen von Douglas Adams, aber es sind diejenigen, die bis heute Kultstatus haben. Trotz des Science-Fiction-Genres werden Adams' Bücher auch von Science-Fiction-Verächtern mit großer Begeisterung gelesen, denn das Genre dient ihm als Vehikel einer rasanten und grenzenlosen Fantasie. Mit Wortwitz und hintergründiger Ironie erzählt er von Arthur Dent und Ford Perfect, die sich kreuz und quer durch die Galaxie treiben lassen. Am 11.Mai 2001 starb Douglas Adams mit 49 Jahren in Kalifornien.
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