title: The Illustrated Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
author:  Douglas Adams 
description: Using digital, graphic "paintbox" techniques, this book has voice chips, a mind-blowing double gatefold, 3-D effects and tricksy visual puns galore. It is an illustrated version of the story of Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent, and their travels across the universe.
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  # HH1 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HH1 - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  
  
  By Adams, Douglas
  
  
  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  
  Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western
  spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
  
  
  Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly
  insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so
  amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat
  idea.
  
  
  This planet hasÑor rather hadÑa problem, which was this: most of the people on
  it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for
  this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of
  small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the
  small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
  
  
  And so the problem remained; lots 