A British suburb in 1979: 30-something BBC employee Arthur Dent wakes up with a hangover, then suddenly remembers that bulldozers are co...

Ford and Trillian don’t get action figures? I can’t imagine why not. (They do get plushies, though.) The Annotation Project: The Hitch...

“A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is beloved by nerds everywhere, many of whom, like myself, are atheists, and indeed Adams defined him...

Arthur Dent in “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” starts off as a very effective hero. We get everything we need in the first few pages...

“A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is one of the funniest books ever written and any writer can learn a lot from it, whether you aim to ...

Nothing makes one feel older that rereading a science-fiction book from one’s youth only to find that it’s come true in the meantime. I ...

See, I told you we’d get around to it! This is a very funny book. One reason that it got pushed pack was that I’d never finished the se...