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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 introduces itself and the floor show is doomsday.
How will it all end? Will they discover the origin of the bathtub? Will they find the significance of gin and tonic? Will they find out the question to the answer 42? For the answers to theses and other cosmic questions, climb aboard and Douglas Adams's zany spaceship and get ready to blast off. Take an improbable ride; your table is ready at The Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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Fiction, Humorous fiction, humorous stories, Interplanetary voyages, Restaurants, Science Fiction, Interstellar travel, Life on other planets, Prefect, ford (fictitious character), fiction, Dent, arthur (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, science fiction, general, English literature, English Science fiction, 18.05 English literature, Fiction, humorous, general, Arthur Dent (Fictitious character), Ford Prefect (Fictitious character)People
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Das restaurant am ende des universums
2022-06, Kein & Aber
Paperback
in German
- 6. Auflage
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
2009, Ballantine Books
Trade Paperback
in English
- 2009 Del Rey trade pbk. ed. (6)
0345418921 9780345418920
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
2002, Picador
Paperback
in English
- 2nd printing
0330491210 9780330491211
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1997?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition (4)
0345391810 9780345391810
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1995-11, Ballantine Books
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in English
- First Ballantine Books Edition (1)
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1987?, Pocket Books
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in English
- 1st Pocket Books paperback printing (18)
0671664948 9780671664947
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1987?, Pan Books
Mass Market Paperback
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- printing (40)
0330262130 9780330262132
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1984?, Pan Original
Paperback
in English
- 31st printing
0330262130 9780330262132
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1984?, Pocket Books
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- 1st Pocket Books paperback printing (13)
0671532642 9780671532642
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1982-10, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Pocket Books paperback printing (1)
0671442686 9780671442682
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1981, Harmony Books
Hardcover
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- Book Club Edition [1st American ed.]
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel" by British rock band Procol Harum. The book title refers to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, one of the settings of the book.
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