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A final installment in the series that began with The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy is taken from the late author''s previously unpublished personal files and features the same wacky and offbeat misadventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and their companions. 50,000 first printing.

In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out on a cross-galactic odyssey in search of her ancestors'' native planet.

Plus bas que Terre ! Ayant - plus ou moins - survécu à son édifiante promenade cosmico-temporelle, le pauvre Arthur Accroc savoure l''indicible plaisir de fouler à nouveau le sol de sa planète natale. Une planète jadis détruite par les terribles Vogons, sous le prétexte fallacieux de laisser passer une autoroute intergalactique... Pas de panique ! Car l''universellement exhaustif Guide galactique saura sans doute répondre à cet étrange paradoxe. Et peut-être élucidera-t-il un mystère plus angoissant encore : pourquoi les dauphins ont-ils disparu, laissant pour ultime message un laconique Salin et encore merci pour le poisson ?

Im Weltraum nichts Neues: Chaos, Kometen und keine Delphine! Arthur Dent aber, der Held der Kultserie "Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis", kann nicht mehr viel schockieren - außer vielleicht, daß er plötzlich fliegen kann.

Endlich daheim! Eigentlich sollte sich Arthur Dent freuen, denn er ist wieder auf der Erde - aber zwei Millionen Jahre vor unserer Zeit... Also nutzt er die erstbeste Chance, wieder ins All und in die Jetztzeit zurückzukehren - und das Chaos geht weiter! [buch.ch].

Arthur Dent has just been told that Earth will be demolished in 12 minutes to make way for a new hyper -space bypass. Armed with his dressing gown and towel, carrying the mysterious and indispensable Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, he must venture forth for the first time in his life... English language track ; English optional subtitles.

Contains the unabridged texts of "The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy," "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," "Life, the Universe, and Everything," "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"

Originally published: New York: Harmony Books, 1980.

Meanings of made up words.

There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It''s not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he''s the only human who''s been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchruch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she''s forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God''s Final Message to His Creation, they go in search of it. And, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. . .