Douglas Adams

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born

March 11, 1952 in Cambridge, England, The United Kingdom

died

May 11, 2001

gender

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website

http://www.douglasadams.com/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers, Humor

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Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts; the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA".

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Average rating: 4.07 · 525,032 ratings · 12,620 reviews · 63 distinct works

	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 293,361 ratings — published 1979 — 154 editions	My rating:
	The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1-5) 4.33 avg rating — 43,202 ratings — published 1979 — 45 editions	My rating:
	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 4.13 avg rating — 41,396 ratings — published 1980 — 90 editions	My rating:
	Life, the Universe, and Everything 4.11 avg rating — 35,002 ratings — published 1982 — 72 editions	My rating:
	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 3.99 avg rating — 30,466 ratings — published 1984 — 69 editions	My rating:
	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 21,992 ratings — published 1987 — 41 editions	My rating:
	Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, #5) 3.86 avg rating — 21,807 ratings — published 1992 — 58 editions	My rating:
	The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 3.93 avg rating — 15,857 ratings — published 1988 — 37 editions	My rating:
	The Salmon of Doubt 3.86 avg rating — 7,366 ratings — published 2002 — 36 editions	My rating:
	Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine 4.30 avg rating — 4,337 ratings — published 1991 — 24 editions	My rating:

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Hitchhiker's Guide: Radio Play (5 books)
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Quotes by Douglas Adams

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor , scifi

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