Illustrated by Jonathan Burton
Introduced by Adam Roberts
Comparing Adams’s work to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard and even Jonathan Swift, science-fiction writer Adam Roberts describes this novel as ‘that rare thing: a sequel that surpasses its original’.
In the beginning the universe was created. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams continues his ’trilogy in five parts’ with more on Arthur Dent and his friends. They have escaped the Vogons and are on the Heart of Gold spaceship, but it is not long before disaster strikes. Arthur asks the ship’s computer to make a cup of tea, which occupies it so completely that it is unable to evade an angry Vogon battleship. Fortunately, Zaphod’s great-grandfather (contacted during a séance) succeeds in rescuing the ship and sending Zaphod to the headquarters of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – where the trouble really begins. At least their adventures will take them to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, ’one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering’.
Douglas Adams’s work has been compared to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard and even Lewis Carroll and Jonathan Swift. He combines entertaining inventions such as Playbeing magazine with original thoughts on everything from politics to evolution. In his introduction, science-fiction writer Adam Roberts describes The Restaurant at the End of the Universe as ’that rare thing: a sequel that surpasses its original’. Illustrator Jonathan Burton has outdone himself with depictions of scenes such as the appalling paradise of Ursa Minor Beta and the captain of the Golgafrinchan regiment having a bath.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Bound in blocked glittered cloth
Set in Sabon
224 pages
Frontispiece and 7 colour illustrations
Metallic slipcase
9˝ × 5¾˝
Biographies
beautiful edition - amazing book
Review by Aedamar O'Rourke on 7th January 2025
Amazing edition of the HGttG, bought as a present for our son and working towards all five books of the trilogy. He's loving both the book(s) and the illustrations. The paper quality is excellent and overall I'd say, the edition is just what Douglas Adams' master work deserves!
Review by Vladimir Milic on 10th September 2024
Terrific. I wish I could afford the limited edition
Review by Marcel Berkhout on 11th August 2024
As written in my overall review, the series of this books differ in appearance, and while each book is fine as a standalone, they look silly as a series since they are differently produced: Cover more or less shiny, slipcases square or curved and different height). No information about this beforehand, and definitely not what I expected. I wouldn't have bought them or at least not at this time if I had known this, and I still don't get it, since it's all about beautiful appearance at Folio Society. Which was also the reason for chosing them. Now it looks like 4+1 books.
Review by schnoogg on 7th March 2024
Beautiful quality product for the book lover in your life
Review by Carol Beattie on 28th December 2023
If aliens were watching us, what would their favourite TV show be? What’s next for that unique publishing phenomenon, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? And how do you make the perfect sandwich? These and other unlikely questions are answered in the final volume of Adams’s universe-spanning odyssey.
In the fourth volume of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, Arthur Dent finds a whole new set of mind-boggling mysteries to deal with when planet Earth appears not to have been destroyed after all.
In the first in his ‘trilogy of five’, Douglas Adams introduces us Earthbound readers to Zaphod Beeblebrox, the Babel fish, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters and Marvin the Paranoid Android.
More inspired lunacy in the third of Adams’s ‘trilogy of five’, here introduced by his friend, the acclaimed comedy writer Jon Canter.
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