The strange name for the service is a reference to Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, both a movie and a book. Babel fish are a fictitious species of fish on a far planet that translate languages if inserted in the ear.
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recommend book⇒The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | |||
| by: | Douglas Adams | 978-0-345-45374-7 | paperback | |
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| (born: 1952-03-11 died: 2001-05-11 at age: 49) | 978-0-517-14925-6 | hardcover | ||
| publisher: | Del Rey | 978-0-307-49846-5 | ebook | |
| published: | 2002-04-30 | B0043M4ZH0 | kindle | |
| Witty science fiction. You need to read it for the same reason you need to read the bible. People make obscure references to it all the time. Includes all five novels in the series. The original movie was excellently done if you don’t want to read. | ||||
| Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock | ||||
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