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: 4.19 · 2,868,604 ratings · 62,947 reviews · 105 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,498,977 ratings — published 1979 — 345 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 — 294,970 ratings — published 1996 — 55 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 — 240,616 ratings — published 1980 — 195 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) 4.19 avg rating — 201,589 ratings — published 1982 — 172 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 — 126,845 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 — 147,720 ratings — published 1984 — 162 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) 4.03 avg rating — 82,488 ratings — published 1988 — 93 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 — 114,858 ratings — published 1992 — 140 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 — 34,818 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 — 27,771 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 — 2,639,080 ratings

Dirk Gently (3 books)
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Douglas Adams

3.99 avg rating — 243,934 ratings

The Meaning of Liff (2 books)
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John Lloyd

3.95 avg rating — 8,843 ratings

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

4.37 avg rating — 4,198 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

38198 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

31411 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

22434 likes

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Polls

Voting is now open for our theme read for May - Science Fiction. Voting will stay open until May 14th, 2018 and the winning book will be announced on May 15th, 2018.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

16 votes, 44.4%

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

6 votes, 16.7%

Dune by Frank Herbert

6 votes, 16.7%

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

5 votes, 13.9%

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

3 votes, 8.3%

36 total votes

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