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.
zlib_text: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  Douglas Adams
  
  for Jonny Brock and Clare Gorst
  and all other Arlingtonians for
  tea, sympathy and a sofa
  
  Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the west-
  ern 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 insigniﬁ-
  cant 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 has – or rather had – a 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 of the people were mean, and most of
  them were miserable, even the ones with digital