The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast... But for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth’s impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that’s not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you’ve got the greatest adventure off Earth.

The history of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy begins on a field in Innsbruck, Austria. It was there that a young and drunk Douglas Adams thought of the name ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, based on the traveling book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe’, by Ken Walsh. Adams then forgot about his idea of a Guide to the Galaxy for many years until, in 1978, he began to work with BBC Radio, creating a radio comedy show about the adventures of a group of five people through the Galaxy, with a book serving as their guide. The radio show was later adapted to other formats, such as a series of books, a TV Show, a videogame and a movie.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast... But for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth’s impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that’s not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you’ve got the greatest adventure off Earth.

The history of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy begins on a field in Innsbruck, Austria. It was there that a young and drunk Douglas Adams thought of the name ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, based on the traveling book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe’, by Ken Walsh. Adams then forgot about his idea of a Guide to the Galaxy for many years until, in 1978, he began to work with BBC Radio, creating a radio comedy show about the adventures of a group of five people through the Galaxy, with a book serving as their guide. The radio show was later adapted to other formats, such as a series of books, a TV Show, a videogame and a movie.