Publisher, Random House Audio (June 2006)

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"HYSTERICAL!" --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading." --The Arizona Daily Star

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice-president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it!

About the Author: Douglas Adams was the author of the five books in the Hitchhiker's Trilogy as well as Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd) among others. His last book was the bestselling collection, The Salmon of Doubt, published posthumously in May 2002. Douglas died in May 2001 at the age of 49.

About the Performer: MARTIN FREEMAN’s credits include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the BBC comedy series The Office. Other recent film credits include Confetti, Breaking and Entering, Jake Paltrow's The Good Night.