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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams

Book 2 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  • 224 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1980
  • 92 editions
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1 About this book

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel" by British rock band Procol Harum. The book title refers to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, one of the settings of the book.

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

  • Humor
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Science fiction
  • Restaurants
  • Interstellar travel
  • Life on other planets
  • Ford Prefect
  • Arthur Dent

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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