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Epigraph Don't Panic

Dedication for

Johnny Brock and Clare Gorst

and all other Arlingtonians

for tea, sympathy, and a sofa

First words Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow star.

Quotations Don't Panic If there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. For thousands of years, the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be the Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog. Life! Don't talk to me about life.

Last words “Okay, baby, hold tight,” said Zaphod. “We'll take a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.” (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)

Disambiguation notice [Book 1 Only] "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is the title of the first in a series of novels (as well as the first in a series of radio dramas). The five works in the series are generally referred to as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or "The Hitchhiker Trilogy", as is the series of radio dramas. Though there are unabridged audio recordings of these works, the radio dramas are considerably different from the printed works. Eoin Colfer, of "Artemis Fowl" fame, contracted in 2008 to write the next volume of the "Trilogy." Do not combine it with the graphic novel adaptation.

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