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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

author: Douglas Adams (1979)
series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1
date read: 2004-12-01
pages: 216
lists: german, scifi
rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The incomparable, oft-compared, one and only Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s so much of a classic that saying anything about it defeats the point.

Cover of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams · published 1987 · read 2007-02-01
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Different, but still brilliant Adams.
Cover of The Eyre Affair.

The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde · published 2001 · read 2007-08-01
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
More brits being absurd. Very different in that it is not space-based, but on the other hand … what's a setting between friends.
Cover of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

by Terry Pratchett · published 1990 · read 2015-04-01
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
The dialogue between these two is very similar, even when everything else isn't.
Cover of All the Troubles of the World.

All the Troubles of the World

by Isaac Asimov · published 1958 · read 2018-08-27
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
More supercomputers that will answer your questions.
Cover of High Wizardry.

High Wizardry

by Diane Duane · published 1990 · read 2016-05-08
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
More nearly all-knowing computers.
Cover of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

by Douglas Adams · published 1980 · read 2003-07-01
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
The next book in the series.