书名：The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus银河系搭车客指南五部曲合集

作者：Douglas Adams  

出版社名称：Pan Macmillan 

出版时间：2020

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781529051438 

商品尺寸：12.9 x 5.4 x 19.7 cm

包装：平装

页数：832（以实物为准）

《银河系搭车客指南》系列被西方科幻读者奉为“科幻圣经”之一。由于它的突出成就，国际小行星管理委员会甚至还将一颗小行星命名为亚瑟邓特——该系列的主人公。

这本小说也特别有趣，处处充满了英式幽默，笑点非常充足，冷笑话满天飞。

为什么生命、宇宙以及一切的答案是42？

为什么毛巾是对一个星际漫游者来说有用的东西？

但在天马行空、十分无厘头的剧情之下，又有些地方非常有哲理与思辨性。

如果哪一天，地球真的要毁灭了，记住《银河系漫游指南》封面上用大而友善的字母写下的忠告吧：Don't Panic.

One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius -- David Walliams

Dazzlingly inventive -- Caitlin Moran

Really entertaining and fun -- John Cleese

Much funnier than anything John Cleese has written -- Terry Jones

I know for a fact that John Cleese hasn’t read it -- Graham Chapman

地球被毁灭了，因为要在它所在的地方修建一条超空间快速通道。主人公阿瑟邓特活下来了，因为他有一位名叫福特长官的朋友。

这位朋友表面上是个找不着工作的演员，其实是个外星人，是名著《银河系漫游指南》派赴地球的研究员。两人开始了一场穿越银河的冒险，能够帮助他们的只有《银河系漫游指南》一书中所包括的无限智慧。

旅途中，他们遇上了一批非常有趣的同伴：

赞福德·毕博布鲁克斯：长着两个头、三条胳膊的银河大盗，他的另一个身份是银河帝国总统。

崔莉恩：赞福德的同伙，除阿瑟·邓特之外惟一一个幸存下来的地球人。事实上，阿瑟从前认识崔莉恩，而且曾经试图勾搭人家，可惜没有成功。

马文：天才机器人，疑心病重，沮丧，唠叨。

这些人物结成一个小团队，他们将揭开一个骇人听闻的大秘密……

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be rather a lot to cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. The Galaxy may offer a mind-boggling variety of ways to be blown up and/or insulted, but it’s very hard to get a cup of tea.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains–'Where shall we have dinner?' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.

Life, the Universe and Everything

Following a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. An eddy in the space-time continuum lands him, Ford Prefect, and their flying sofa in the middle of the cricket ground at Lord's, just two days before the world is due to be destroyed by the Vogons. Escaping the end of the world for a second time, Arthur, Ford, and their old friend Slartibartfast embark (reluctantly) on a mission to save the whole galaxy from fanatical robots. Not bad for a man in his dressing gown.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It's not an easy thing to do, and Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick–until he meets Fenchurch, the woman of his dreams. Fenchurch once realized how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately, she's forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God's Final Message to His Creation, they go in search of it. And, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it . . .

Mostly Harmless

Arthur Dent has settled down on the small planet Lamuella and has embraced his role as a Sandwich Maker. However, his plans for a quiet life are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all–he's encountered most of them before.

Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.