The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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A great book. First published AD 1979, written in English
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio sitcom broadcast over two series on BBC Radio 4 between 1978 and 1980, it was soon adapted to other formats, including both novels and comic books, a 1981 BBC television series, a 1984 text adventure game, stage shows and a 2005 feature film.
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What it draws on
The Sirens of TitanGreat book
Kurt Vonnegut, AD 1959
Douglas Adams named The Sirens of Titan as an influence: a comic tour of the solar system in which human history turns out to serve an absurd alien purpose, as the Earth itself does in The Hitchhiker's Guide.
Source: Wikipedia, The Sirens of Titan
“In a 1979 interview released in 2007, Douglas Adams discussed Vonnegut as an influence on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Sirens of Titan is just one of those books – you read it through the first time and you think it's very loosely, casually written.” Read it there
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