Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Companion

Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion is a book by Neil Gaiman about Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The book was originally published in January 1988 in the USA and UK (ISBN 1-85286-013-8).

A second edition, retitled Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was published in the UK in July 1993, containing additional material by David K. Dickson (ISBN 1-85286-411-7).

A third edition, with another slight title revision (now known as Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) was published in the UK by Titan Books in June 2002, and contains further additional material, this time by M. J. Simpson (ISBN 1-84023-501-2).

An updated edition was published by Titan Books in October 2003 (ISBN 1-84023-742-2).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams
Books
Main series
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • Life, the Universe and Everything
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
  • Mostly Harmless
Related works
  • Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
  • The Original Radio Scripts
  • The Salmon of Doubt
by Dirk Maggs The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Scripts: The Tertiary, Quandary, and Quintessential Phases
by Terry Jones Starship Titanic
by Eoin Colfer And Another Thing...
Media
  • Radio series
    • Phases 1 & 2
    • Phases 3, 4 & 5
  • TV series
  • Film
  • Timeline of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy versions
  • Cast lists
Games
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (with Steve Meretzky)
  • Starship Titanic
Companion
media
  • Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
  • Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams
  • Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters
  • Arthur Dent
  • Ford Prefect
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox
  • Marvin the Paranoid Android
  • Trillian
  • Slartibartfast
  • The Guide
  • Minor characters
  • Races and species
  • Vogons
Miscellanea
  • Phrases
  • Places
  • Technology
  • Somebody Else's Problem
  • Encyclopedia Galactica
In culture
  • h2g2
  • Hitchcon
  • International phenomenon
  • Towel Day
  • "Journey of the Sorcerer"
  • 18610 Arthurdent
  • 25924 Douglasadams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Portal
Neil Gaiman bibliography
Novels
  • American Gods
  • Anansi Boys
  • Coraline
  • Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
  • The Graveyard Book
  • InterWorld (with Michael Reaves)
  • Neverwhere (novelization of his television series)
  • Odd and the Frost Giants
  • Stardust
Single author collections
  • Angels and Visitations
  • Fragile Things
  • M Is for Magic
  • Smoke and Mirrors
  • A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff
Other book-length fiction
  • A Walking Tour of the Shambles (with Gene Wolfe)
Picture books
  • The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
  • Blueberry Girl
  • The Wolves in the Walls
  • Crazy Hair
Short fiction
  • "Murder Mysteries"
  • "Snow, Glass, Apples" (adapted as Two Plays for Voices)
  • "We Can Get Them for You Wholesale"
  • "A Study in Emerald"
  • "I, Cthulhu"
Books edited by Neil Gaiman
  • The Sandman: Book of Dreams
Comic books and graphic novels
  • Angela
  • Black Orchid
  • "Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?"
  • The Books of Magic
  • Creatures of the Night
  • Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man
  • Death: The High Cost of Living
  • "Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame"
  • Harlequin Valentine
  • The Last Temptation
  • Death: The Time of Your Life
  • Eternals
  • Lady Justice
  • Marvel 1602
  • Midnight Days
  • Marvelman
  • Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again
  • The Sandman
  • The Sandman: Endless Nights
  • The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
  • Sandman Midnight Theatre
  • Signal to Noise
  • Tekno Comix
  • The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch
  • Violent Cases
Screenplays and films
  • Babylon 5: "Day of the Dead"
  • Beowulf (with Roger Avary)
  • Princess Mononoke (English adaptation)
  • Stardust
  • Neverwhere
  • MirrorMask
  • A Short Film About John Bolton
  • Death and Me (unproduced screenplay)
  • Coraline
  • Statuesque
  • Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife"
Non-fiction
  • Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion

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