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Mostly Harmless Mass market paperbound - 2000

by Douglas Adams

The fifth hilarious novel in the classic "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series follows the exploits of Arthur Dent, who has to adjust to a new life when his spaceship crashes on a remote planet. "If you were hoping for more of the zany, nonsensical, mayhem produced in the earlier books, you're in luck." --"The New York Times Book Review."


Summary

It's easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit--and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of forms: there's the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn't even know he had one.Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the publisher

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and educated at Cambridge. He was the author of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, including The Hitchhiker’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; and Mostly Harmless. His other works include Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd); and Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine). His last book was the bestselling collection, The Salmon of Doubt, published posthumously in May 2002.
You can find more about Douglas Adam's life and works at douglasadams.com.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

First line

The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening anyway.

From the rear cover

Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings.

"From the Hardcover edition.

From the jacket flap

Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings.

"From the Hardcover edition.

Details

  • Title Mostly Harmless
  • Author Douglas Adams
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Del Rey Books, New York, New York
  • Date 2000-02-01
  • ISBN 9780345418777 / 0345418778
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.98 x 4.36 x 0.65 in (17.73 x 11.07 x 1.65 cm)
  • Reading level 910
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Science fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99091508
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—New York Times Book Review


“It is Mr. Adams’s genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful.”—Baltimore Sun



From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the author

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
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