Super Short Summary

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams follows Arthur Dent, the last surviving Earthman, and Ford Prefect, an alien from Betelgeuse, as they hitch a ride on a spaceship just before the Earth is destroyed by the bureaucratic Vogons for a hyperspatial bypass; they join Ford’s cousin, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Trillian on their voyage through space. The book contains mentions of depression and death by suicide.