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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) is the title of the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name.

Note: The title The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is often abbreviated as "HHG", "HHGG", "HHGTTG" or "H2G2". Unfortunately, the different editions of the Hitchhiker's Guide spell it differently -- so you'll find "Hitch-Hiker's Guide", "Hitch Hiker's Guide" as well as "Hitchhiker's Guide" in different editions (US or UK), versions (audio or text) and compilations of the book. For the sake of coherence Wikipedia spells it Hitchhiker, which is reportedly the way Adams himself preferred it.

The novel takes its name from the fictional book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guidebook and sort of eccentric encyclopedia.

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