Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, 1979
Random House
216 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780345391803


Summary 
Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch kind of guy, is plucked from Earth just before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

Towel in hand, he begins his journey through space qnd time with his rescuer Ford Perfect, a traveling researcher for the Guide. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy," with the words "don’t panic" written on the front. (“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”)

This is the first in a series of six novellas. (From the publisher.)