Best known for his work with Monty Python's Flying Circus, Terry Jones lends his signature voice and style to Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic. The wacky tale of scientific genius Leovinus's ill-fated starship is brought to life by Jones's vocal acrobatics. Nearly every member of this stupefyingly odd cast of characters seems to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown or death by sheer boredom – and the variety works splendidly. Jones fleshes out the circus of activity with comedic aplomb, bringing the absolutely right feel to the audio presentation. Starship Titanic is more fun than you can shake a fish paste sandwich at.

In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boy’s first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans can’t make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.

The first in the Hitchhikers Guide series. One Thursday lunchtime Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has just had his house demolished that morning, this is more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very large and startling place indeed.

This is the version read by Douglas Adams which completes the recently published series.

A 1988 science fiction detective novel, this is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The title is a phrase which appeared in Adams's earlier novel Life, The Universe and Everything, but the novels are not otherwise related.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a novel by Douglas Adams. It is described on its jacket as a "detective ghost horror who dunnit time-travel romantic musical comedy epic". Like many stories that involve time travel, the plot of Dirk Gently defies easy encapsulation, or indeed any kind of coherent explanation.

Neuromancer, William Gibson's debut novel, has won all major science fiction awards and defined a whole new genre. It is regarded as one of the breakthrough novels of the eighties and founded the cyberpunk literary genre, even though Gibson does not like the cyberpunk label.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this, however, is at all comprehensible to anyone below the level of Advanced God and, since it is now well established that all known gods came into existence a good three millionths of a second after the universe began rather than, as they usually claimed, the previous week, they already have a great deal of explaining to do as it is. They are, therefore, not available for comment at this time…

Just as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in it's dickiest state he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3.976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's final message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.

When all the questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, the question remains: where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the obvious answer, it provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and there is no morning after to worry about.

In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.

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