The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Hardcover, 250 pages

English language

Published Feb. 21, 1981 by Harmony Books.

ISBN:
978-0-517-54535-5
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ust when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore, Douglas Adams presents The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The Time: Infinity The Place: The Universe The Survivors: Arthur Dent (Earthling) - a mild-mannered, out-to-lunch space traveler, searching the cosmos for a decent cup of tea. Ford Prefect (alien) - unflappable researcher for the most successful and useful book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Trillian (earthling) - sexy space cadet who gave Arthur the cold shoulder at a cocktail party; she is now the girl friend of Zaphod Beeblebrox (alien) - two headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe.

This fantastic foursome encounters paranoid androids, existential elevators, improbability drives, and kill-o-zap blasters on an interstellar romp that takes them from a thirty megaton rock concert on Kakrafoon to Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the Universe, where the main dish of the day …

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  • Prefect, Ford (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Dent, Arthur (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.
  • Restaurants -- Fiction.