It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive.

The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions.

Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves.

A sci-fi book, packed full of adventure and humour

In his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual’s quest for ‘meaning and design’ can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose

An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . an intensely dramatic masterpiece.