The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 1979 by Serious Productions Limited

Illustrations copyright © 2021 by Chris Riddell

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Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Originally published in hardcover in different form in the United Kingdom by Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, in 1979 and subsequently in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC in 1980. This edition published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan Children's Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, in 2021.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Hal Leonard LLC for permission to reprint excerpts from“You'll Never Walk Alone”from CAROUSEL, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers, copyright © 1945 by Williamson Music Company c/o Concord Music Publishing. Copyright renewed. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC.

Hardback ISBN　9780593359440

Ebook ISBN　9780307417138

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