In the original dust jacket. Grey board binding with gilt title on the spine.

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A quality book from Jack Arnold LANG’s library. Lang is famous both for his fantastic Cambridge restaurant and as one of the progenitors of the computer RASPBERRY PI. 

The fifth part of the “Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series. 20 years on, the Guide falls into the hands of Arthur Dent’s daughter, Random, whose mother, unexpectedly to all concerned, is Trillian. Random journeys to an insignificant planet, whose entry in the Guide reads “mostly harmless”.

Review: Read a few times. The more I read the stories, the more I think Adams was a genius. If you think about work and everyday situations, the quirky aliens remind me more of real life people I’ve met ( bankers, politicians, and other people who don’t seem to be in touch with real life and reality ).

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy evolved into a “trilogy” of six (or five, according to the author) books which sold more than 15 million copies in his life. It was made into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams’s contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame.

Adams wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, including the unaired serial Shada, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its 17th season. He co-wrote the sketch “Patient Abuse” for the final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.

Adams called himself a “radical atheist” and was an advocate for environmentalism and conservation. He was a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.