Books like 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Readers who enjoyed The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
26 ratingsMiles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a cunning plan.. -
![The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams]()
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
60 ratingsSeconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out of work actor... -
![The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel]()
The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel
18 ratingsStanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae... -
![The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
29 ratingsBetween the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible... -
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![Doctor Who: Shada by Gareth Roberts]()
Doctor Who: Shada by Gareth Roberts
18 ratingsFrom the unique mind of Douglas Adams, the legendary "lost" Doctor Who story has been completed at last by Gareth Roberts and narrated by Lalla Ward.The Doctor’s old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University—where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana and K-9... -
![Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith]()
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
18 ratingsStark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw... -
![The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
42 ratingsThe Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there’ s a catch to the invitation–and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell... -
![Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson]()
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
25 ratingsCallahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time... -
![Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
26 ratingsIn the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary captain Miles Naismith attempts to discover the link between the insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates. Reissue. AB... -
![Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor]()
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor
26 ratingsThe first lesson Lister learned about space travel was you should never try it. But Lister didn't have a choice. All he remembered was going on a birthday celebration pub crawl through London. When he came to his senses again, with nothing in his pockets but a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein.So he did the only thing he could... -
![Better than Life by Grant Naylor]()
Better than Life by Grant Naylor
24 ratingsA wild and wacky SF series--based on the popular BBC-TV series--reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Lister--who passed out drunk in London and awakened in a locker on a moon of Saturn--now finds himself trapped in a computer game that transports players to the perfect world of their imaginations--a game people are literally dying to play...Categorized as:
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![Phule's Company by Robert Lynn Asprin]()
Phule's Company by Robert Lynn Asprin
20 ratingsIn the novel that started all the phulishness, meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company--a handful of military rejects able to do more damage before 9 a.m. than most people do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule and his soldiers to a distant planet. But now, the aliens have chosen a new target of war . . . Phule's Company... -
![The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World by Harry Harrison]()
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World by Harry Harrison
18 ratingsSomeone was tampering with time, altering the past to eliminate the present, fading people out of existence into a timeless limbo. One of the victims was Angelina, the wife of James de Griz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat. That put Slippery Jim on the trail of the villains, a trail that went back to 1984 and an ancient nation called the United States of America... -
![The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison]()
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison
18 ratingsDiGriz and Angelina are happily married and expecting the birth of their sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war, and against the odds, its Grey Men are invading and taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planet's leader, Kraj... -
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![Phule's Paradise by Robert Lynn Asprin]()
Phule's Paradise by Robert Lynn Asprin
18 ratingsThe bestselling author of the Myth series proves once again that not just anyone can join Phule's Company. They used to be the laughingstock of the interstellar armed forces--until their last mission proved successful. Now they must guard an intergalactic casino called the Fat Chance from a criminal takeover--and the odds are against the oddballs... -
![The High Crusade by Poul Anderson]()
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
16 ratingsIn the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire...Categorized as:
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![My Teacher Flunked the Planet by Bruce Coville]()
My Teacher Flunked the Planet by Bruce Coville
14 ratingsALIEN INVASION OF EARTH!Peter Thompson, a typical seventh-grader, finds himself touring the planet with his friends Susan Simmons and Duncan Dougal, and three aliens in disguise! Their mission? To file the final report that will determine Earth's future in the universe. As the clock ticks away the hours before their meeting in space, the tour becomes weirder and weirder... -
![Last Human by Doug Naylor]()
Last Human by Doug Naylor
18 ratingsLister gazed out of the porthole and catalogue the series of disasters that had led him to this point in space and time: the bad decisions, the poor career choices, the unreliable friendships that had led him here - on a prison ship bound for the most inhospitable penal colony in the outer cosmos... and all he'd ever wanted was to be a soft metal guitar icon... -
![The Stainless Steel Rat for President by Harry Harrison]()
The Stainless Steel Rat for President by Harry Harrison
16 ratingsThe Stainless Steel rat is back! Slippery Jim diGriz, the future's most lovable, laughable, larcenous conman tumed counterspy, retums for yet another high-tension mission.This time the Special Corps has given the Rat a daring assignment - liberate a backward tourist planet from the clutches of an aging dictator... -
![Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer, Kilgore Trout]()
Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer, Kilgore Trout
16 ratingsSimon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with a cat-like alien queen in heat... -
![A Phule and His Money by Robert Lynn Asprin, Peter J. Heck]()
A Phule and His Money by Robert Lynn Asprin, Peter J. Heck
16 ratingsCaptain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape. That's how he turned Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into... a crack team of casino security guards.Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet... -
![My Teacher Glows in the Dark by Bruce Coville]()
My Teacher Glows in the Dark by Bruce Coville
16 ratingsKidnapped in Space?Peter Thompson has had some pretty weird teachers in his time. By the time he discovers that his newest teacher glows in the dark, he’s flying away from Earth in a spaceship full of aliens and there’s no one he can call. How do you report an alien to the F.B.I... -
![Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
25 ratingsOn Athos, a world without women, Dr. Ethan Urquhart delivers babies from uterine replicators. But when the ovarian cultures start dwindling, he is sent abroad on a mission to replenish the planets stocks... -
![My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville]()
My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville
21 ratingsSixth grade is just out of this world!Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face -- and realizes that "Mr. Smith" is really an alien! At first no one will believe her except Peter Thompson, the class brain. When Peter and Susan discover Mr... -
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![Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett]()
Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett
24 ratingsIt's just a game . . . isn't it?The alien spaceship is in his sights. His finger is on the Fire button. Johnny Maxwell is about to set the new high score on the computer game Only You Can Save Mankind.Suddenly, a message appears:We wish to talk. We surrender... -
![Young Zaphod Plays It Safe by Douglas Adams]()
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe by Douglas Adams
26 ratingsYoung Zaphod Plays it Safe is a novella by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe. It doesn't appear as a standalone work, but is included with several collections. The story is a prequel to the events in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and has the young Zaphod Beeblebrox working as a salvage ship operator... -
![Bill, The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison]()
Bill, The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
18 ratingsIt was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honor-he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia... -
![Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones]()
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones
24 ratingsArguably the greatest collaboration in the whole history of comedy!Bestselling author Douglas Adams wrote the storyline based on his CD-ROM game of the same name (as this novel, not as him, obviously).Terry Jones of Monty Python wrote the book. In the nude! Parents be warned! Most of the words in this book were written by a naked man!So. You want to argue with that? All right, we give in...Categorized as:
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![The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams]()
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams
28 ratingsCharting the whole of Arthur Dent's odyssey through space are:THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with... -
![The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams]()
The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams
16 ratingsIncludes an essay entitled "Introduction: A Guide to the Guide," the complete texts of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, as well as the short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe...
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