Douglas Adams
Author
Language
English
Description
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go...
Author
Series
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy volume 5
Language
English
Description
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time....
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time....
Author
Series
Dirk Gently trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the event is said to be an act of God. But which god? wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently. And how is this connected to Dirk's battle with his cleaning lady over his filthy refrigerator ... or to the murder of his latest client? Or are these events just another stretch of coincidences in the life of the world's most off-kilter private investigator?
Author
Series
Dirk Gently trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Quirky and bumbling private investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a ghost, millions of years old, wandering the earth and disturbing its people. Dirk soon discovers this phantom yearns for more than a good haunting: it is desperately trying to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way!
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 815 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of writings by Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," including short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, letters, and the unfinished novel "The Salmon of Doubt."
Author
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas's long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time. Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This compilation contains all six episodes of the BBC's adaptation of a sci-fi fantasy about an unassuming Englishman and his outwardly average neighbor who is actually an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the Heart of Gold and search for the ultimate question.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2008], p1998, 2005
Edition
BBC dramatization.
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (2 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Dent never could get the hang of Thursdays. On this particular Thursday, his house is set to be demolished and his friend Ford Prefect turns out to be from a star named Betelgeuse (and not, after all, from Guildford). Furthermore, it turns out that the whole Earth is scheduled for demolition by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. The irony of the situation is almost lost on Arthur as he and Ford hitch an intergalactic ride away...
18) Dirk Gently
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dirk Gently uses his unique perception of the interconnectedness of all things to solve baffling mysteries--while at the same time accumulating exorbitant expenses, from a new refrigerator to a trip to Bermuda, which he assures his clients are also interconnected with their problems.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.".
Series
Tom Baker years 1974-1981 volume story no. 109
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Doctor brings Romana to present day Earth to visit Professor Chronotis, an elderly Time Lord living a quiet academic life as a professor at St. Cedd's College in Cambridge after fleeing Gallifrey. But the Doctor isn't the only one looking for Chronotis, a scientist called Skagra is looking to steal his mind and find the location of a book called The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey.