Finally, we learn the truth about what happened just before the Vogons destroyed Earth.
—based on Wikipedia
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

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  1. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (Pan Books, August 1982).
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Previous Works
freely adapted from The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes of 5 April 1978, 12 April 1978, 24 December 1978, and 21–25 January 1980

Indexer Notes

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  1. Debut—According to Wikipedia, the UK paperback debuted in August 1982; the ISFDB also lists it as August, though they state that Locus pegged it as October. A later US hardback appeared in 1982.
  2. Adaptation—The dates of the radio episodes are from the copyright page of the 1982 UK paperback. 
  3. Classification—Definite time travel since they begin in prehistoric Earth and are dragged through a spacetime eddy to modern times. There is other time travel, too, but we haven't yet done a read for complete indexing.