The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Join Douglas Adams’s hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. Funny science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue.