Douglas Adams

Born

in Cambridge, England, The United Kingdom

March 11, 1952

Died

May 11, 2001

Website

http://www.douglasadams.com/

Genre

Science Fiction, Mystery, Humor

Influences

Monty Python, Kurt Vonnegut, P. G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Jane Au ...more

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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".

In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote or co-wrote ...more

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Douglas Adams’s books

Average rating: 4.2 · 2,839,926 ratings · 62,564 reviews · 111 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,481,214 ratings — published 1979 — 341 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5) 4.36 avg rating — 292,792 ratings — published 1996 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) 4.21 avg rating — 238,105 ratings — published 1980 — 194 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3) 4.20 avg rating — 199,749 ratings — published 1982 — 170 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 124,954 ratings — published 1987 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) 4.10 avg rating — 146,437 ratings — published 1984 — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2) by Douglas Adams, Wilson McLean (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 81,587 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5) 3.96 avg rating — 113,454 ratings — published 1992 — 138 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts 4.51 avg rating — 34,794 ratings — published 1986 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #0.5) 3.68 avg rating — 27,696 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (6 books)
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Douglas Adams

4.20 avg rating — 2,611,647 ratings

Dirk Gently (3 books)
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Douglas Adams

4.00 avg rating — 240,921 ratings

The Meaning of Liff (2 books)
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Douglas Adams,

John Lloyd

3.95 avg rating — 8,819 ratings

Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series (6 books)
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Various (Reading)

4.38 avg rating — 4,123 ratings

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Quotes by Douglas Adams

“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

tags: life, navigation

38153 likes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

31382 likes

“The story so far:
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

22389 likes

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Polls

May 2019 Revisit the Shelf Poll

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, 1959, 182 pages, Group read: 2017

81 votes, 23.5%

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1979, 216 pages, Group Read: 2014, 2016

76 votes, 22.1%

The Iliad by Homer, 720 BCE, 683 pages, Group read: 2012

56 votes, 16.3%

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958, 209 pages, Group read: 2015

54 votes, 15.7%

Watership Down by Richard Adams, 1972, 478 pages, Group read: 2016

53 votes, 15.4%

Rob Roy by Walter Scott, 1817, 501 pages, Group read: 2012

24 votes, 7.0%

344 total votes

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