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Mostly Harmless

Douglas Adams

Book 5 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  • 259 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1992
  • 53 editions
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1 About this book

Mostly Harmless is a 1992 novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It is described on the cover of the first edition as "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy". It was the last Hitchhiker's book written by Adams and his final book released in his lifetime.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: humor, fantasy, and space travel.

  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Humor
  • Fantasy
  • Science fiction
  • Voyages, Imaginary
  • Ford Prefect
  • Arthur Dent
  • Fantastic fiction

2 About Douglas Adams

1952–2001

Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 14 million copies in his lifetime. He also adapted it into a 1981 television series, a 1984 video game and a 2005 feature film. Adams was born in Cambridge and raised in Essex.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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