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Get the Summary of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work...
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If you've ever wondered how much real science goes into movies like “Gravity”, novels like “The Martian”, and television shows like “Doctor Who”, this is the book for you. Written by an author who is both a data scientist and a science fiction writer, this entertaining and accessible book uses popular science fiction movies, stories, and TV shows to explain the science behind popular narrative concepts like time travel, lightsabers, AI,...
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For fans of Douglas Adams, PG Wodehouse, Monty Python, and Dennis Taylor.
It's one thing to know that the End is coming, quite another to know the exact date and time right down to the nanosecond.
Such is the unhappy fate of the inhabitants of Rexos-4, a once-thriving planet that has lived under the doom of an inevitable apocalypse for millenia. Their entire philosophy of life may be summed up by the phrase "Mxtlpicam' bnak ooligapn," which in most...
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"You are a vital component of Global Waste"went the company motivational email… Irena wants to fit in, and she needs the job, so she goes with the flow and doesn't rock the boat. But discovering something strange and potentially deadly in Stockholm's wastewater sends her fellow janitor squad members off the rails. Their hare-brained assumptions and accusations, fueled by the web site 'Syllojizm,' drive them to ever more dangerous mayhem. Irena is...
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"Because he died before his time, the teen protagonist of this wildly imaginative fantasy/sci-fi novel ends up in the special part of the afterlife reserved for lost things. He is meant to wait there until his proper time to die. Wit, as he is called in the afterlife, finds himself sharing this peculiar sort of purgatory with all manner of lost things-not just children. Buttons, socks, religion ("people are losing their religion all the time, right?")...
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Journey back into history as you've never seen it before in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Past”.
In this witty and engaging book, Stuart MacPherson leads you on a hilarious journey through Ancient Britain, the Middle Ages, and the building of the British Empire, all the way to the reign of Queen Victoria.
This tongue-in-cheek history book has a touch of The Goons and Monty Python, and is perfect for adult fans of Terry Deary, Gyles Brandreth...
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