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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Books

tea

Teatime in Space: Culture and Colonialism in SFF

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Books

Five Books

Remarkable Rodents: Five SFF Stories Featuring Rats and Mice

By Lorna Wallace

April 16, 2025

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Lists

television

Ten Space TV Shows That Don’t Get Enough Love

By Charlie Jane Anders

January 31, 2024

Babel Fish, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Books

Science Fiction

What the Universal Translator Tells Us About Exploring Other Cultures

By Charlie Jane Anders

April 24, 2023

Blog

Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar 2 Joins a Long, Storied History of Space Whales

By Emmet Asher-Perrin, Molly Templeton

December 16, 2022

News

news

A New Collection of Douglas Adams’ Writing Has Been Funded on Kickstarter

By Andrew Liptak

April 8, 2021

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Blog

Front Lines and Frontiers

Laughing in the Face of Doom: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

By Alan Brown

April 1, 2021

Detail from the cover of Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Movies & TV

Murderbot

Murderbot and Chill: TV Recommendations for Our Favorite Terrifying Murderbot

By Leah Schnelbach

April 1, 2020

Featured Essays

food

6 SFF Restaurants and Bars We Want to Visit

By Julia Bergen

September 26, 2019

News

news

We’re Getting a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Show on Hulu!

By Stubby the Rocket

July 25, 2019

Featured Essays

books

5 Unexpected Continuations of Beloved Stories

By Stubby the Rocket

July 12, 2019

Books

Science Fiction

Our 6 Favorite Stories of Being Tossed Into Space

By Stubby the Rocket

May 24, 2019

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

TPG 2026 • Site Credit