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Douglas Adams


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

Died
May 11, 2001

Website

Genre
Science Fiction, Mystery, Humor

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


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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The Restaurant at the End o...
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Life, the Universe and Ever...
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So Long, and Thanks for All...
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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
tags: life, navigation
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“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
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“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
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2017 CHOICE AWARDS - Best Book of 2017 EHRTBM Edition
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December - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
 
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October - It by Stephen King
 
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February - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
 
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