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<span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1.3</span> <span><i>Dirk Gently</i> series</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dirk_Gently_series-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Music" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Music"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Music</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Music-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Pink_Floyd" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pink_Floyd"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.1</span> <span>Pink Floyd</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pink_Floyd-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Computer_games_and_projects" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Computer_games_and_projects"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Computer games and projects</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Computer_games_and_projects-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_beliefs_and_activism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_beliefs_and_activism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Personal beliefs and activism</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personal_beliefs_and_activism-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Personal beliefs and activism subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Personal_beliefs_and_activism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Atheism_and_views_on_religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Atheism_and_views_on_religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Atheism and views on religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Atheism_and_views_on_religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Environmental_activism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Environmental_activism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Environmental activism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Environmental_activism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Technology_and_innovation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Technology_and_innovation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Technology and innovation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Technology_and_innovation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Personal life</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Death_and_legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Death_and_legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Death and legacy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Death_and_legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards_and_nominations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards_and_nominations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Awards and nominations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_and_nominations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Bibliography subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span><i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dirk_Gently" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dirk_Gently"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span><i>Dirk Gently</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dirk_Gently-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Short_stories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Short_stories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Short stories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Short_stories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Non-fiction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Non-fiction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>Non-fiction</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Non-fiction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_works" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_works"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>Other works</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_works-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Filmography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Filmography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Filmography</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Filmography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Filmography subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Filmography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Film" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Film</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Television" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Television"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Television</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Television-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Radio" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Radio"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Radio</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Video_games" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Video_games"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Video games</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Video_games-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B2" title="دوغلاس آدمز – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="دوغلاس آدمز" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duqlas_Adams" title="Duqlas Adams – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Duqlas Adams" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2" title="داقلاس آدامز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="داقلاس آدامز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%85%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8" title="ডগলাস অ্যাডামস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ডগলাস অ্যাডামস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Дуглас Адамс – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Дуглас Адамс" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Дуглас Адамс – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Дуглас Адамс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B7" title="Дуглас Адамз – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Дуглас Адамз" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8A%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Дъглас Адамс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дъглас Адамс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%82" title="Ντάγκλας Άνταμς – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ντάγκλας Άνταμς" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2" title="داگلاس آدامز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="داگلاس آدامز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%94%EA%B8%80%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4_%EC%95%A0%EB%8D%A4%EC%8A%A4" title="더글러스 애덤스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="더글러스 애덤스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A3%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%BD_%D4%B1%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%BD" title="Դուգլաս Ադամս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դուգլաս Ադամս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%90%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%A1" title="דאגלס אדמס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דאגלס אדמס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%92%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="დაგლას ადამსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დაგლას ადამსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Дуглас Адамс – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Дуглас Адамс" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81,_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Адамс, Дуглас – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Адамс, Дуглас" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duglassius_Adams" title="Duglassius Adams – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Duglassius Adams" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duglass_Adamss" title="Duglass Adamss – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Duglass Adamss" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Даглас Адамс – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Даглас Адамс" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%86%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ഡഗ്ലസ് ആഡംസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഡഗ്ലസ് ആഡംസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%85%E2%80%8D%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="डग्लस अ‍ॅडम्स – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="डग्लस अ‍ॅडम्स" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2" title="دوجلاس ادامز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="دوجلاس ادامز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2" title="داگلاس آدامز – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="داگلاس آدامز" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA" title="ダグラス・アダムズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ダグラス・アダムズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%B8_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B8" title="ਡਗਲਸ ਐਡਮਸ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਡਗਲਸ ਐਡਮਸ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%B3_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%85%D8%B3" title="ڈگلس ایڈمس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ڈگلس ایڈمس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81,_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Адамс, Дуглас – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Адамс, Дуглас" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Douglas Adams" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Даглас Адамс 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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">English author and humourist (1952–2001)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people named Douglas Adams, see <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Douglas Adams (disambiguation)">Douglas Adams (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Douglas Adams</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Douglas_adams_portrait_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Douglas_adams_portrait_cropped.jpg/220px-Douglas_adams_portrait_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Douglas_adams_portrait_cropped.jpg/330px-Douglas_adams_portrait_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Douglas_adams_portrait_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="386" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Douglas Noel Adams<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1952-03-11</span>)</span>11 March 1952<br /><a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">11 May 2001<span style="display:none">(2001-05-11)</span> (aged 49)<br /><a href="/wiki/Montecito,_California" title="Montecito, California">Montecito, California</a>, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery" title="Highgate Cemetery">Highgate Cemetery</a>, London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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.hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Author</li> <li>screenwriter</li> <li>essayist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_humorists" title="List of humorists">humourist</a></li> <li>satirist</li> <li>dramatist</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Science fiction, comedy, satire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable work</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Inkpot_Award" title="Inkpot Award">Inkpot Award</a> (1983)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Jane Belson</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="25 November 1991">1991</span>)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Wedekind" title="Frank Wedekind">Benjamin Franklin Wedekind</a> (great-grandfather)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Douglas_Adams_Unterschrift_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Douglas_Adams_Unterschrift_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Douglas_Adams_Unterschrift_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Douglas_Adams_Unterschrift_%28cropped%29.jpg/225px-Douglas_Adams_Unterschrift_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Douglas_Adams_Unterschrift_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Douglas_Adams_Unterschrift_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1480" data-file-height="788" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://douglasadams.com">douglasadams<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Douglas Noel Adams</b> (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, <a href="/wiki/Humourist" class="mw-redirect" title="Humourist">humourist</a>, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"><i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> (<i>HHGTTG</i>)</a>. Originally a 1978 <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)">BBC radio comedy</a>, <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> developed into a "<a href="/wiki/Trilogy" title="Trilogy">trilogy</a>" of six (or five, according to the author) books which sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)">a television series</a>, several stage plays, comics, <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)">a video game</a>, and a 2005 <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)">feature film</a>. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in <a href="/wiki/Radio_Academy" title="Radio Academy">The Radio Academy</a>'s Hall of Fame.<sup id="cite_ref-radioacad_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-radioacad-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams also wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Gently%27s_Holistic_Detective_Agency" title="Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency">Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</a></i> (1987) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Dark_Tea-Time_of_the_Soul" title="The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul">The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul</a></i> (1988), and co-wrote <i><a href="/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff" title="The Meaning of Liff">The Meaning of Liff</a></i> (1983), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deeper_Meaning_of_Liff" class="mw-redirect" title="The Deeper Meaning of Liff">The Deeper Meaning of Liff</a></i> (1990) and <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See" title="Last Chance to See">Last Chance to See</a></i> (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i>, including the unaired serial <i><a href="/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who)" title="Shada (Doctor Who)">Shada</a></i>, co-wrote <i><a href="/wiki/City_of_Death" title="City of Death">City of Death</a></i> (1979), and served as script editor for its <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who_season_17" title="Doctor Who season 17">17th season</a>. He co-wrote the sketch "<a href="/wiki/Patient_Abuse" title="Patient Abuse">Patient Abuse</a>" for the final episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i>. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt" title="The Salmon of Doubt">The Salmon of Doubt</a></i> in 2002. </p><p>Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for <a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmentalism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Conservation_movement" title="Conservation movement">conservation</a>, and a lover of fast cars,<sup id="cite_ref-TI_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TI-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> technological innovation, and the <a href="/wiki/Macintosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Macintosh">Apple Macintosh</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams was born in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, England, on 11 March 1952 to Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985), a management consultant and computer salesman, former probation officer and lecturer on probationary group therapy techniques, and nurse Janet (1927–2016), née Donovan.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family moved a few months after his birth to the <a href="/wiki/East_End_of_London" title="East End of London">East End of London</a>, where his sister, Susan, was born three years later.<sup id="cite_ref-Adams_xix_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams_xix-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents divorced in 1957; Douglas, Susan and their mother moved then to an <a href="/wiki/RSPCA" title="RSPCA">RSPCA</a> animal shelter in <a href="/wiki/Brentwood,_Essex" title="Brentwood, Essex">Brentwood, Essex</a>, run by his maternal grandparents.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each parent remarried, giving Adams four half-siblings. A great-grandfather was the playwright <a href="/wiki/Frank_Wedekind" title="Frank Wedekind">Benjamin Franklin Wedekind</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood. At the age of nine, he passed the entrance exam for <a href="/wiki/Brentwood_School_(Essex)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brentwood School (Essex)">Brentwood School</a>. He attended the <a href="/wiki/Preparatory_school_(United_Kingdom)" title="Preparatory school (United Kingdom)">prep school</a> from 1959 to 1964, then the main school until December 1970. Adams was 6 feet (1.8 m) tall by the age of 12, and stopped growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m). His form master, Frank Halford, said that Adams's height had made him stand out and that he had been self-conscious about it.<sup id="cite_ref-Adams_7_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams_7-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His ability to write stories made him well known in the school.<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_9_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson_9-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams became the only student ever to be awarded a ten out of ten by Halford for creative writing – something he remembered for the rest of his life, particularly when facing <a href="/wiki/Writer%27s_block" title="Writer's block">writer's block</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Adams_xix_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams_xix-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of his earliest writing was published at the school, such as a report on its photography club in <i>The Brentwoodian</i> in 1962, or spoof reviews in the school magazine <i>Broadsheet</i>, edited by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Neil_Milne_Johnstone" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Neil Milne Johnstone">Paul Neil Milne Johnstone</a>, who later became a character in <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide</i>. Adams also designed the cover of one issue of the <i>Broadsheet</i>, and had a letter and short story published in <i><a href="/wiki/Eagle_(comic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eagle (comic)">The Eagle</a></i>, the boys' comic, in 1965. A poem entitled "A Dissertation on the task of writing a poem on a candle and an account of some of the difficulties thereto pertaining" written by Adams in January 1970 at the age of 17, was discovered in a cupboard at the school in early 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the strength of an essay on religious poetry that discussed <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, Adams was awarded an <a href="/wiki/Exhibition_(scholarship)" title="Exhibition (scholarship)">Exhibition</a> in English at <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a> (where his father had likewise been a student),<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> going up in 1971. He wanted to join the <a href="/wiki/Footlights" title="Footlights">Footlights</a>, an invitation-only student comedy club that has acted as a hothouse for comic talent. He was not elected immediately as he had hoped, and started to write and perform in revues with Will Adams (no relation) and Martin Smith; they formed a group called "Adams-Smith-Adams". He became a member of the Footlights by 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_30-40_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson_30-40-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite doing very little work – he recalled having completed three essays in three years – he graduated in 1974 with a 2:2 in <a href="/wiki/English_literature" title="English literature">English literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writing">Writing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After leaving university, Adams moved back to London, determined to break into TV and radio as a writer. An edited version of the <i>Footlights Revue</i> appeared on <a href="/wiki/BBC2" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC2">BBC2</a> television in 1974. A version of the Revue performed live in London's <a href="/wiki/West_End_of_London" title="West End of London">West End</a> led to Adams being discovered by <a href="/wiki/Monty_Python" title="Monty Python">Monty Python</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Graham_Chapman" title="Graham Chapman">Graham Chapman</a>. The two formed a brief writing partnership, earning Adams a writing credit in <a href="/wiki/List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes#6._Party_Political_Broadcast" title="List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes">episode 45</a> of <i>Monty Python</i> for a sketch called "<a href="/wiki/Patient_Abuse" title="Patient Abuse">Patient Abuse</a>". The pair also co-wrote the "Marilyn Monroe" sketch that appeared on the soundtrack album of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Album_of_the_Soundtrack_of_the_Trailer_of_the_Film_of_Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail" title="The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail">Monty Python and the Holy Grail</a></i>. Adams is one of only two people other than the original Python members to get a writing credit (the other being <a href="/wiki/Neil_Innes" title="Neil Innes">Neil Innes</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-times_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DNA_in_Monty_Python.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0a/DNA_in_Monty_Python.jpg/220px-DNA_in_Monty_Python.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0a/DNA_in_Monty_Python.jpg/330px-DNA_in_Monty_Python.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/DNA_in_Monty_Python.jpg 2x" data-file-width="333" data-file-height="299" /></a><figcaption>Adams in his first <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python</a></i> appearance, in full surgeon's garb</figcaption></figure> <p>Adams had two brief appearances in the fourth series of <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i>. At the beginning of episode 42, "The Light Entertainment War", Adams is in a surgeon's mask (as Dr. Emile Koning, according to on-screen captions), pulling on gloves, while <a href="/wiki/Michael_Palin" title="Michael Palin">Michael Palin</a> narrates a sketch that introduces one person after another but never gets started.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This is suspect as THGTTG was written after MPFS. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> At the beginning of episode 44, "Mr. Neutron", Adams is dressed in a <a href="/wiki/List_of_recurring_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_characters#Pepperpots" title="List of recurring Monty Python's Flying Circus characters">pepper-pot</a> outfit and loads a missile onto a cart driven by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Jones" title="Terry Jones">Terry Jones</a>, who is calling for scrap metal ("Any old iron...").<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The two episodes were broadcast in November 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams and Chapman also attempted non-Python projects, including <i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_the_Trees" title="Out of the Trees">Out of the Trees</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At this point, Adams's career stalled; his writing style was unsuited to the then-current style of radio and TV comedy.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To make ends meet, he took a series of odd jobs, including as a hospital porter, barn builder, and chicken shed cleaner. He was employed as a bodyguard by a <a href="/wiki/Qatari" class="mw-redirect" title="Qatari">Qatari</a> family, who had made their fortune in oil.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this time, Adams continued to write and submit sketches, though few were accepted. In 1976, his career had a brief improvement when he wrote and performed <i>Unpleasantness at Brodie's Close</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Fringe" class="mw-redirect" title="Edinburgh Fringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> festival. By Christmas, work had dried up again, and a depressed Adams moved to live with his mother.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lack of writing work hit him hard, and low confidence became a feature of Adams's life: "I have terrible periods of lack of confidence [...] I briefly did therapy, but after a while I realised it was like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather – you just have to get on with it."<sup id="cite_ref-Adams_prologue_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams_prologue-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of Adams's early radio work included sketches for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Burkiss_Way" title="The Burkiss Way">The Burkiss Way</a></i> in 1977 and <i><a href="/wiki/The_News_Huddlines" title="The News Huddlines">The News Huddlines</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote, again with Chapman, the 20 February 1977 episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_on_the_Go" title="Doctor on the Go">Doctor on the Go</a></i>, a sequel to the <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_in_the_House_(TV_series)" title="Doctor in the House (TV series)">Doctor in the House</a></i> television comedy series. After the <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)">first radio series of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide</i></a> became successful, Adams was made a BBC radio producer, working on <i><a href="/wiki/Week_Ending" title="Week Ending">Week Ending</a></i> and a pantomime called <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Cinderella_Two_Goes_East" title="Black Cinderella Two Goes East">Black Cinderella Two Goes East</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left after six months to become the script editor for <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i>. </p><p>In 1979, Adams and <a href="/wiki/John_Lloyd_(producer)" title="John Lloyd (producer)">John Lloyd</a> wrote scripts for two half-hour episodes of <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Snuggles" title="Doctor Snuggles">Doctor Snuggles</a></i>: "The Remarkable Fidgety River" and "The Great Disappearing Mystery" (episodes eight and twelve).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoberts2015129–130_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoberts2015129–130-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Lloyd was also co-author of two episodes from the original <i>Hitchhiker</i> radio series ("Fit the Fifth" and "Fit the Sixth", also known as "Episode Five" and "Episode Six"), as well as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff" title="The Meaning of Liff">The Meaning of Liff</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deeper_Meaning_of_Liff" class="mw-redirect" title="The Deeper Meaning of Liff">The Deeper Meaning of Liff</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Work_on_Doctor_Who">Work on <i>Doctor Who</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Work on Doctor Who"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></div> <p>Adams sent the script for the <i>HHGG</i> pilot radio programme to the <i>Doctor Who</i> production office in 1978, and was commissioned to write <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Planet" title="The Pirate Planet">The Pirate Planet</a></i>. He had also previously attempted to submit a potential film script, called <i>Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen</i>, which later became his novel <i><a href="/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything" title="Life, the Universe and Everything">Life, the Universe and Everything</a></i> (which in turn became the third <i>Hitchhiker's Guide</i> radio series). Adams then went on to serve as script editor on the show for its 17th season in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three <a href="/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_episodes_(1963%E2%80%931989)" title="List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)"><i>Doctor Who</i> serials</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Tom_Baker" title="Tom Baker">Tom Baker</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Doctor" title="Fourth Doctor">Fourth Doctor</a>: </p> <ul><li><i>The Pirate Planet</i> (the second serial in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Key_to_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="The Key to Time">the Key to Time</a></i> arc, in <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who_season_16" title="Doctor Who season 16">season 16</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/City_of_Death" title="City of Death">City of Death</a></i> (with producer <a href="/wiki/Graham_Williams_(television_producer)" title="Graham Williams (television producer)">Graham Williams</a>, from an original storyline by writer <a href="/wiki/David_Fisher_(writer)" title="David Fisher (writer)">David Fisher</a>. It was transmitted under the pseudonym "<a href="/wiki/David_Agnew" title="David Agnew">David Agnew</a>")<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who)" title="Shada (Doctor Who)">Shada</a></i> (only partially filmed; not televised due to industry disputes, but was later completed using animation for the unfinished scenes and broadcast as "Doctor Who: The Lost Episode" on <a href="/wiki/BBC_America" title="BBC America">BBC America</a> on 19 July 2018)<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The episodes authored by Adams are some of the few that were not originally novelised, as Adams would not allow anyone else to write them and asked for a higher price than the publishers were willing to pay.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Shada</i> was adapted as a novel by <a href="/wiki/Gareth_Roberts_(writer)" title="Gareth Roberts (writer)">Gareth Roberts</a> in 2012 and <i>City of Death</i> and <i>The Pirate Planet</i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Goss_(producer)" title="James Goss (producer)">James Goss</a> in 2015 and 2017 respectively. </p><p>Elements of <i>Shada</i> and <i>City of Death</i> were reused in Adams's later novel <i><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Gently%27s_Holistic_Detective_Agency" title="Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency">Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</a></i>, in particular, the character of <a href="/wiki/Professor_Chronotis" title="Professor Chronotis">Professor Chronotis</a>. <a href="/wiki/Big_Finish_Productions" title="Big Finish Productions">Big Finish Productions</a> eventually remade <i>Shada</i> as an audio play starring <a href="/wiki/Paul_McGann" title="Paul McGann">Paul McGann</a> as the Doctor. Accompanied by partially animated illustrations, it was <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who_spin-offs#Webcasts" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor Who spin-offs">webcast</a> on the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Online" title="BBC Online">BBC website</a> in 2003, and subsequently released as a two-CD set later that year. An omnibus edition of this version was broadcast on the digital radio station <a href="/wiki/BBC7" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC7">BBC7</a> on 10 December 2005. </p><p>In the <i>Doctor Who</i> 2012 Christmas episode "<a href="/wiki/The_Snowmen#Production" title="The Snowmen">The Snowmen</a>", writer <a href="/wiki/Steven_Moffat" title="Steven Moffat">Steven Moffat</a> was inspired by a storyline that Adams pitched called <i>The Doctor Retires</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy"><span id="The_Hitchhiker.27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy"></span><i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></div> <p><i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by Adams and radio producer <a href="/wiki/Simon_Brett" title="Simon Brett">Simon Brett</a> to <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> in 1977. Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories (reprinted in <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Panic:_The_Official_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Companion" title="Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion">Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion</a></i>) that could be used in the series. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg/170px-Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg/255px-Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg/340px-Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Towel_Day" title="Towel Day">Towel Day</a> 2005 in <a href="/wiki/Innsbruck" title="Innsbruck">Innsbruck</a>, Austria, where Adams conceived <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide</i>. In the novels, a towel is the most useful thing a space traveller can have. The annual Towel Day (25 May) was first celebrated in 2001, two weeks after Adams's death.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to Adams, the idea for the title occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in <a href="/wiki/Innsbruck" title="Innsbruck">Innsbruck</a>, Austria, gazing at the stars. He was carrying a copy of the <i><a href="/wiki/Hitch-hiker%27s_Guide_to_Europe" title="Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe">Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe</a></i>, and it occurred to him that "somebody ought to write a <i>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the original outline, Adams was said to make up the stories as he wrote. He turned to <a href="/wiki/John_Lloyd_(producer)" title="John Lloyd (producer)">John Lloyd</a> for help with the final two episodes of <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Primary_and_Secondary_Phases#The_Primary_Phase" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases">the first series</a>. Lloyd contributed bits from an unpublished science fiction book of his own, called <i>GiGax</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Very little of Lloyd's material survived in later adaptations of <i>Hitchhiker's</i>, such as the novels and the TV series. The TV series was based on the first six radio episodes, and sections contributed by Lloyd were largely re-written. </p><p>BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio series weekly in the UK starting 8 March 1978, lasting until April.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The series was distributed in the United States by <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">National Public Radio</a>. Following the success of the first series, another episode was recorded and broadcast, which was commonly known as the Christmas Episode. <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Primary_and_Secondary_Phases#The_Secondary_Phase" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases">A second series</a> of five episodes was broadcast one per night, during the week of 21–25 January 1980. </p><p>While working on the radio series (and with simultaneous projects such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Planet" title="The Pirate Planet">The Pirate Planet</a></i>) Adams developed problems keeping to writing deadlines that got worse as he published novels. Adams was never a prolific writer and usually had to be forced by others to do any writing. This included being locked in a hotel suite with his editor for three weeks to ensure that <i><a href="/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish" title="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish">So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish</a></i> was completed.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was quoted as saying, "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_236_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson_236-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite the difficulty with deadlines, Adams wrote five novels in the series, published in 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, and 1992. </p><p>The books formed the basis for other adaptations, such as three-part comic book adaptations for each of the first three books, an interactive text-adventure <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(computer_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)">computer game</a>, and a photo-illustrated edition, published in 1994. This latter edition featured a <a href="/wiki/42_Puzzle" class="mw-redirect" title="42 Puzzle">42 Puzzle</a> designed by Adams, which was later incorporated into paperback covers of the first four <i>Hitchhiker's</i> novels (the paperback for the fifth re-used the artwork from the hardback edition).<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1980, Adams began attempts to turn the first <i>Hitchhiker's</i> novel into a film, making several trips to Los Angeles, and working with Hollywood studios and potential producers. The next year, the radio series became the basis for a BBC television mini-series<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> broadcast in six parts. When he died in 2001 in California, he had been trying again to get the film project started with <a href="/wiki/Disney" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney">Disney</a>, which had bought the rights in 1998. The screenplay was rewritten by <a href="/wiki/Karey_Kirkpatrick" title="Karey Kirkpatrick">Karey Kirkpatrick</a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> film was released in 2005. </p><p>Radio producer <a href="/wiki/Dirk_Maggs" title="Dirk Maggs">Dirk Maggs</a> had consulted with Adams, first in 1993, and later in 1997 and 2000 about creating a third radio series, based on the third novel in the <i>Hitchhiker's</i> series.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also discussed the possibilities of radio adaptations of the final two novels in the five-book "trilogy". As with the film, this project was realised only after Adams's death. The third series, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Tertiary_to_Quintessential_Phases#The_Tertiary_Phase" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases">The Tertiary Phase</a></i>, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004 and was subsequently released on audio CD. With the aid of a recording of his reading of <i>Life, the Universe and Everything</i> and editing, Adams can be heard playing the part of Agrajag posthumously. <i>So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish</i> and <i>Mostly Harmless</i> made up the fourth and fifth radio series, respectively (on radio they were titled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Tertiary_to_Quintessential_Phases#The_Quandary_Phase" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases">The Quandary Phase</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Tertiary_to_Quintessential_Phases#The_Quintessential_Phase" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases">The Quintessential Phase</a></i>) and these were broadcast in May and June 2005, and also subsequently released on Audio CD. The last episode in the last series (with a new, "more upbeat" ending) concluded with, "The very final episode of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> by Douglas Adams is affectionately dedicated to its author."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dirk_Gently_series"><i>Dirk Gently</i> series</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Dirk Gently series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Douglas_Adams_San_Francisco.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Douglas_Adams_San_Francisco.jpg/220px-Douglas_Adams_San_Francisco.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Douglas_Adams_San_Francisco.jpg/330px-Douglas_Adams_San_Francisco.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Douglas_Adams_San_Francisco.jpg/440px-Douglas_Adams_San_Francisco.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Adams in March 2000</figcaption></figure> <p>Between Adams's first trip to <a href="/wiki/Madagascar" title="Madagascar">Madagascar</a> with <a href="/wiki/Mark_Carwardine" title="Mark Carwardine">Mark Carwardine</a> in 1985, and their series of travels that formed the basis for the radio series and non-fiction book <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See" title="Last Chance to See">Last Chance to See</a></i>, Adams wrote two other novels with a new cast of characters. <i><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Gently%27s_Holistic_Detective_Agency" title="Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency">Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</a></i> was published in 1987, and was described by its author as "a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Dark_Tea-Time_of_the_Soul" title="The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul">The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul</a></i>, was published a year later. It was Adams's first original work since <i>So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.</i> After the book tour, Adams set off on his round-the-world excursion, which supplied him with the material for <i>Last Chance to See</i>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt" title="The Salmon of Doubt">The Salmon of Doubt</a></i> was incomplete when published posthumously. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of 24 left-handed guitars when he died (having received his first guitar in 1964). He also studied piano in the 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd">Pink Floyd</a> and <a href="/wiki/Procol_Harum" title="Procol Harum">Procol Harum</a> had important influence on Adams's work. During his segment on music discussion programme <i><a href="/wiki/Private_Passions" title="Private Passions">Private Passions</a></i>, Adams remarked that he "would have loved to have been a rock musician".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pink_Floyd">Pink Floyd</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Pink Floyd"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams's official biography shares its name with the song <a href="/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Pink_Floyd_song)" title="Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)">"Wish You Were Here"</a> by <a href="/wiki/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd">Pink Floyd</a>. The opening section of "<a href="/wiki/Shine_On_You_Crazy_Diamond" title="Shine On You Crazy Diamond">Shine On You Crazy Diamond</a>" was featured in a section of the third episode of the original 1978 <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)"><i>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> radio series</a> (broadcast only, cut from commercial releases). Adams was friends with Pink Floyd guitarist <a href="/wiki/David_Gilmour" title="David Gilmour">David Gilmour</a> and, on Adams's 42nd birthday, he was invited to make a guest appearance at Pink Floyd's concert of 28 October 1994 at Earls Court in London, playing guitar on the songs <a href="/wiki/Brain_Damage_(Pink_Floyd_song)" title="Brain Damage (Pink Floyd song)">"Brain Damage"</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eclipse_(Pink_Floyd_song)" title="Eclipse (Pink Floyd song)">"Eclipse"</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mabbett-MM_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mabbett-MM-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams chose the name for Pink Floyd's 1994 album, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Division_Bell" title="The Division Bell">The Division Bell</a></i>, by picking the words from the lyrics to one of its tracks, "<a href="/wiki/High_Hopes_(Pink_Floyd_song)" title="High Hopes (Pink Floyd song)">High Hopes</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Mabbett-MM_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mabbett-MM-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pink Floyd and the song "<a href="/wiki/Set_the_Controls_for_the_Heart_of_the_Sun" title="Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun">Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun</a>" in particular, inspired Adams to create the rock band Disaster Area who appear in <i>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</i>, who planned to crash a space ship into a nearby star as a stunt during a concert.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gilmour also performed at Adams's memorial service in 2001, and what would have been Adams's 60th birthday party in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Computer_games_and_projects">Computer games and projects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Computer games and projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams created an <a href="/wiki/Interactive_fiction" title="Interactive fiction">interactive fiction</a> version of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(computer_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)">HHGG</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Steve_Meretzky" title="Steve Meretzky">Steve Meretzky</a> from <a href="/wiki/Infocom" title="Infocom">Infocom</a> in 1984. In 1986 he participated in a week-long brainstorming session with the <a href="/wiki/Lucasfilm_Games" title="Lucasfilm Games">Lucasfilm Games</a> team for the game <i><a href="/wiki/Labyrinth:_The_Computer_Game" title="Labyrinth: The Computer Game">Labyrinth</a></i>. Later he was also involved in creating <i><a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy_(computer_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bureaucracy (computer game)">Bureaucracy</a></i> as a parody of events in his own life. </p><p>Adams was a founder-director and Chief Fantasist of <a href="/wiki/The_Digital_Village" class="mw-redirect" title="The Digital Village">The Digital Village</a>, a digital media and Internet company with which he created <i><a href="/wiki/Starship_Titanic" title="Starship Titanic">Starship Titanic</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Software_and_Information_Industry_Association#CODiE_Awards" title="Software and Information Industry Association">Codie award</a>-winning and <a href="/wiki/BAFTA#Games_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA">BAFTA-nominated adventure game</a>, which was published in 1998 by <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Terry_Jones" title="Terry Jones">Terry Jones</a> wrote the accompanying book, entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Starship_Titanic" title="Starship Titanic">Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic</a></i>, since Adams was too busy with the computer game to do both. In April 1999, Adams initiated the <a href="/wiki/H2g2" title="H2g2">h2g2</a> <a href="/wiki/Collaborative_writing" title="Collaborative writing">collaborative writing</a> project, an experimental attempt at making <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> a reality, and at harnessing the collective brainpower of the internet community. It was hosted by BBC Online from 2001 to 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1990, Adams wrote and presented a television documentary programme <i><a href="/wiki/Hyperland" title="Hyperland">Hyperland</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which featured <a href="/wiki/Tom_Baker" title="Tom Baker">Tom Baker</a> as a "software agent" (similar to the assistant pictured in Apple's <a href="/wiki/Knowledge_Navigator" title="Knowledge Navigator">Knowledge Navigator</a> video of future concepts from 1987), and interviews with <a href="/wiki/Ted_Nelson" title="Ted Nelson">Ted Nelson</a>, the co-inventor of <a href="/wiki/Hypertext" title="Hypertext">hypertext</a> and the person who coined the term. Adams was an early adopter and advocate of hypertext. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_beliefs_and_activism">Personal beliefs and activism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Personal beliefs and activism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Atheism_and_views_on_religion">Atheism and views on religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Atheism and views on religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams described himself as a "radical <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>", adding "radical" for emphasis so he would not be asked if he meant agnostic. He told <a href="/wiki/American_Atheists" title="American Atheists">American Atheists</a> that this conveyed the fact that he really meant it. He imagined a <a href="/wiki/Anthropic_principle" title="Anthropic principle">sentient puddle</a> who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in – an interesting hole I find myself in – fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" to express his disbelief in the <a href="/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe" title="Fine-tuned universe">fine-tuned universe</a> argument for God.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He remained fascinated by religion because of its effect on human affairs. "I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing."<sup id="cite_ref-amath_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amath-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The evolutionary biologist and atheist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a> invited Adams to participate in his 1991 <a href="/wiki/Royal_Institution_Christmas_Lectures" title="Royal Institution Christmas Lectures">Royal Institution Christmas Lectures</a>, where Dawkins calls Adams from the audience to read a passage from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe" title="The Restaurant at the End of the Universe">The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</a></i> which satirises the absurdity of the thought that any one species would exist on Earth merely to serve as a meal to another species, such as humans.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dawkins also uses Adams's influence to exemplify arguments for non-belief in his 2006 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_God_Delusion" title="The God Delusion">The God Delusion</a></i>. Dawkins dedicated the book to Adams, whom he jokingly called "possibly [my] only convert" to atheism<sup id="cite_ref-TheGuardian_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheGuardian-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and wrote on his death that "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the <a href="/wiki/Mountain_gorilla" title="Mountain gorilla">mountain gorilla</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Black_rhino" class="mw-redirect" title="Black rhino">black rhino</a> have lost a gallant defender."<sup id="cite_ref-Dawkins2001_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawkins2001-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environmental_activism">Environmental activism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Environmental activism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams was also an <a href="/wiki/Environmental_activist" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental activist">environmental activist</a> who campaigned on behalf of <a href="/wiki/Endangered_species" title="Endangered species">endangered species</a>. This activism included the production of the non-fiction radio series <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See" title="Last Chance to See">Last Chance to See</a></i>, in which he and naturalist <a href="/wiki/Mark_Carwardine" title="Mark Carwardine">Mark Carwardine</a> visited rare species such as the <a href="/wiki/K%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D" title="Kākāpō">kākāpō</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baiji" title="Baiji">baiji</a>, and the publication of a tie-in book of the same name. In 1992, this was made into a CD-ROM combination of <a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a>, <a href="/wiki/E-book" class="mw-redirect" title="E-book">e-book</a> and picture slide show. </p><p>Adams and Mark Carwardine contributed the 'Meeting a Gorilla' passage from <i>Last Chance to See</i> to the book <i><a href="/wiki/Great_Ape_Project" title="Great Ape Project">The Great Ape Project</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This book, edited by <a href="/wiki/Paola_Cavalieri" title="Paola Cavalieri">Paola Cavalieri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Singer" title="Peter Singer">Peter Singer</a>, launched a wider-scale project in 1993, which calls for the extension of moral equality to include all great apes, human and non-human. </p><p>In 1994, Adams participated in a climb of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Kilimanjaro" title="Mount Kilimanjaro">Mount Kilimanjaro</a> while wearing a rhino suit for the British charity organisation <a href="/wiki/Save_the_Rhino" title="Save the Rhino">Save the Rhino International</a>. Puppeteer <a href="/wiki/William_Todd-Jones" title="William Todd-Jones">William Todd-Jones</a>, who had originally worn the suit in the London Marathon to raise money and bring awareness to the group, also participated in the climb wearing a rhino suit; Adams wore the suit while travelling to the mountain before the climb began. About £100,000 was raised through that event, benefiting schools in Kenya and a black rhinoceros preservation programme in <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>. Adams was also an active supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Dian_Fossey" title="Dian Fossey">Dian Fossey</a> Gorilla Fund. </p><p>Since 2003, Save the Rhino has held an annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture around the time of his birthday to raise money for environmental campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technology_and_innovation">Technology and innovation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Technology and innovation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams bought his first word processor in 1982, having considered one as early as 1979. His first purchase was a Nexu. In 1983, when he and Jane Belson went to Los Angeles, he bought a <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">DEC</a> <a href="/wiki/Rainbow_100" title="Rainbow 100">Rainbow</a>. Upon their return to England, Adams bought an <a href="/wiki/Apricot_Computers" title="Apricot Computers">Apricot</a>, then a <a href="/wiki/BBC_Micro" title="BBC Micro">BBC Micro</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Tandy_1000" title="Tandy 1000">Tandy 1000</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_184-185_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson_184-185-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Last Chance to See</i>, Adams mentions his <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Z88" title="Cambridge Z88">Cambridge Z88</a>, which he had taken to <a href="/wiki/Zaire" title="Zaire">Zaire</a> on a quest to find the <a href="/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros" title="Northern white rhinoceros">northern white rhinoceros</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams's posthumously published work, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt" title="The Salmon of Doubt">The Salmon of Doubt</a></i>, features several articles by him on the subject of technology, including reprints of articles that originally ran in <i><a href="/wiki/MacUser" title="MacUser">MacUser</a></i>, and in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent#The_Independent_on_Sunday" title="The Independent">The Independent on Sunday</a></i>. In these, Adams claims that one of the first computers he ever saw was a <a href="/wiki/Commodore_PET" title="Commodore PET">Commodore PET</a>, and that he had "adored" his Apple Macintosh ("or rather my family of however many Macintoshes it is that I've recklessly accumulated over the years") since he first saw one at Infocom's offices in Boston in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams was a Macintosh user from the time they first came out in 1984 until his death in 2001. He was the first person to buy a Mac in Europe, the second being <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams was also an "<a href="/wiki/AppleMasters" title="AppleMasters">Apple Master</a>", celebrities whom Apple made into spokespeople for its products (others included <a href="/wiki/John_Cleese" title="John Cleese">John Cleese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Hines" title="Gregory Hines">Gregory Hines</a>). Adams's contributions included a rock video that he created using the first version of <a href="/wiki/IMovie" title="IMovie">iMovie</a> with footage featuring his daughter Polly. The video was available on Adams's <a href="/wiki/.Mac" class="mw-redirect" title=".Mac">.Mac</a> homepage. Adams installed and started using the first release of <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">Mac OS X</a> in the weeks leading up to his death. His last post to his own forum was in praise of Mac OS X and the possibilities of its <a href="/wiki/Cocoa_(API)" title="Cocoa (API)">Cocoa</a> programming framework. He said it was "awesome...", which was also the last word he wrote on his site.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams used email to correspond with <a href="/wiki/Steve_Meretzky" title="Steve Meretzky">Steve Meretzky</a> in the early 1980s, during their collaboration on Infocom's version of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_184-185_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson_184-185-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While living in New Mexico in 1993 he set up another e-mail address and began posting to his own <a href="/wiki/USENET" class="mw-redirect" title="USENET">USENET</a> newsgroup, alt.fan.douglas-adams, and occasionally, when his computer was acting up, to the comp.sys.mac hierarchy.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Challenges to the authenticity of his messages later led Adams to set up a message forum on his own website to avoid the issue. In 1996, Adams was a keynote speaker at the <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> <a href="/wiki/Professional_Developers_Conference" title="Professional Developers Conference">Professional Developers Conference</a> (PDC) where he described the personal computer as being a modelling device. The video of his keynote speech is archived on <a href="/wiki/Channel_9_(discussion_forum)" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel 9 (discussion forum)">Channel 9</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams was also a keynote speaker for the April 2001 <a href="/wiki/Academic_conference" title="Academic conference">Embedded Systems Conference</a> in San Francisco, one of the major technical conferences on <a href="/wiki/Embedded_system" title="Embedded system">embedded system</a> engineering.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams moved to <a href="/wiki/Upper_Street" title="Upper Street">Upper Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islington" title="Islington">Islington</a> in 1981<sup id="cite_ref-IPP_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPP-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and to Duncan Terrace, a few minutes walk away, in the late 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-IPP_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IPP-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early 1980s, Adams had a relationship with novelist <a href="/wiki/Sally_Emerson" title="Sally Emerson">Sally Emerson</a>, who was separated from her husband at that time. Adams later dedicated his book <i><a href="/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything" title="Life, the Universe and Everything">Life, the Universe and Everything</a></i> to Emerson. In 1981, Emerson returned to her husband, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Stothard" title="Peter Stothard">Peter Stothard</a>, a contemporary of Adams at <a href="/wiki/Brentwood_School_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brentwood School (England)">Brentwood School</a> and later editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>. Adams was soon introduced by friends to Jane Belson with whom he later became romantically involved. Belson was the "lady barrister" mentioned in the jacket-flap biography printed in his books during the mid-1980s ("He [Adams] lives in Islington with a lady barrister and an Apple Macintosh"). The two lived in Los Angeles together during 1983, while Adams worked on an early screenplay adaptation of <i>Hitchhiker's</i>. When the deal fell through, they moved back to London and after several separations ("He is currently not certain where he lives, or with whom")<sup id="cite_ref-sfweekly_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfweekly-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a broken engagement, they married on 25 November 1991. </p><p>Adams and Belson had one daughter together, Polly Jane Rocket Adams, born on 22 June 1994 shortly after Adams turned 42. In 1999, the family moved from London to <a href="/wiki/Santa_Barbara,_California" title="Santa Barbara, California">Santa Barbara, California</a>, where they lived until his death. Following the funeral, Jane Belson and Polly Adams returned to London.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Belson died on 7 September 2011 of cancer, aged 59.<sup id="cite_ref-timesobit_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesobit-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Highgate_Cemetery_-_East_-_Douglas_Adams_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Highgate_Cemetery_-_East_-_Douglas_Adams_01.jpg/260px-Highgate_Cemetery_-_East_-_Douglas_Adams_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Highgate_Cemetery_-_East_-_Douglas_Adams_01.jpg/390px-Highgate_Cemetery_-_East_-_Douglas_Adams_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Highgate_Cemetery_-_East_-_Douglas_Adams_01.jpg/520px-Highgate_Cemetery_-_East_-_Douglas_Adams_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4189" data-file-height="2793" /></a><figcaption>Adams's gravestone, <a href="/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery" title="Highgate Cemetery">Highgate Cemetery</a>, North London</figcaption></figure> <p>Adams died of a <a href="/wiki/Heart_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart attack">heart attack</a> due to undiagnosed <a href="/wiki/Coronary_artery_disease" title="Coronary artery disease">coronary artery disease</a> on 11 May 2001, aged 49, after resting from his regular workout at a private gym in <a href="/wiki/Montecito,_California" title="Montecito, California">Montecito, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_Shulman_2001_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis_Shulman_2001-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His funeral was held on 16 May in Santa Barbara. His ashes were placed in <a href="/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery" title="Highgate Cemetery">Highgate Cemetery</a> in north London in June 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_337-338_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson_337-338-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A memorial service was held on 17 September 2001 at <a href="/wiki/St_Martin-in-the-Fields" title="St Martin-in-the-Fields">St Martin-in-the-Fields</a> church, <a href="/wiki/Trafalgar_Square" title="Trafalgar Square">Trafalgar Square</a>, London. This became the first church service broadcast live on the web by the BBC.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two days before Adams died, the <a href="/wiki/Minor_Planet_Center" title="Minor Planet Center">Minor Planet Center</a> announced the naming of asteroid <a href="/wiki/18610_Arthurdent" title="18610 Arthurdent">18610 Arthurdent</a>, named after <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> protagonist.<sup id="cite_ref-MPC42677_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC42677-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, the asteroid <a href="/wiki/25924_Douglasadams" title="25924 Douglasadams">25924 Douglasadams</a> was named in his memory.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2002, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt" title="The Salmon of Doubt">The Salmon of Doubt</a></i> was published, containing many short stories, essays and letters as well as eulogies from <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a> (in the UK edition), <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Cerf_(musician_and_television_producer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher Cerf (musician and television producer)">Christopher Cerf</a> (in the US edition), and <a href="/wiki/Terry_Jones" title="Terry Jones">Terry Jones</a> (in the US paperback edition). It also includes eleven chapters of his unfinished novel, <i>The Salmon of Doubt</i>, which was originally intended to become a new <a href="/wiki/Dirk_Gently" title="Dirk Gently">Dirk Gently</a> novel but might have later become the sixth <i>Hitchhiker</i> novel.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other events after Adams's death included a <a href="/wiki/Webcast" title="Webcast">webcast</a> production of <i><a href="/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who)" title="Shada (Doctor Who)">Shada</a></i>, allowing the complete story to be told, radio dramatisations of the final three books in the <i>Hitchhiker's</i> series and the completion of <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)">the film adaptation</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i>. The film, released in 2005, posthumously credits Adams as a producer and several design elements – including a head-shaped planet seen near the end of the film – incorporated Adams's features. </p><p>A 12-part radio series based on the <a href="/wiki/Dirk_Gently" title="Dirk Gently">Dirk Gently</a> novels was announced in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BBC Radio 4 also commissioned a third Dirk Gently radio series based on the incomplete chapters of <i>The Salmon of Doubt</i> and written by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Fuller" title="Kim Fuller">Kim Fuller</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but this was dropped in favour of a BBC-TV series based on the two completed novels.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A sixth <i>Hitchhiker</i> novel, <i><a href="/wiki/And_Another_Thing..._(novel)" title="And Another Thing... (novel)">And Another Thing...</a></i>, by <i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_Fowl_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis Fowl (series)">Artemis Fowl</a></i> author <a href="/wiki/Eoin_Colfer" title="Eoin Colfer">Eoin Colfer</a>, was released on 12 October 2009 (the 30th anniversary of the first book), published with the support of Adams's estate. A BBC Radio 4 <i><a href="/wiki/Book_at_Bedtime" title="Book at Bedtime">Book at Bedtime</a></i> adaptation and an audio book soon followed. </p><p>On 25 May 2001, two weeks after Adams's death, his fans organised a tribute known as <a href="/wiki/Towel_Day" title="Towel Day">Towel Day</a>, which has been observed every year since then.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An Apple Macintosh SE/30 once owned by Adams can be seen on display at <a href="/wiki/The_Centre_for_Computing_History" class="mw-redirect" title="The Centre for Computing History">The Centre for Computing History</a> in Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, John Lloyd presented an hour-long episode of the BBC Radio Four documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Archive_on_4" title="Archive on 4">Archive on 4</a></i> discussing Adams's private papers, which are held at <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC-b09tbl2s_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-b09tbl2s-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The episode is available online.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC-b09tbl2s_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-b09tbl2s-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Travessa Douglas Adams, a street at <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Douglas_Adams&params=27_35_21.8_S_48_39_44.0_W_type:landmark_region:BR&title=Travessa+Douglas+Adams"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">27°35′21.8″S</span> <span class="longitude">48°39′44.0″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">27.589389°S 48.662222°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-27.589389; -48.662222</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Travessa Douglas Adams</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> in <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Jos%C3%A9,_Santa_Catarina" title="São José, Santa Catarina">São José</a>, Santa Catarina, Brazil is named in Adams's honour.<sup id="cite_ref-TDA_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDA-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2021, <a href="/wiki/Unbound_(publisher)" title="Unbound (publisher)">Unbound</a> announced a <a href="/wiki/Crowdfunding" title="Crowdfunding">crowdfunder</a> for <i>42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams</i>, on the 20th anniversary of his death, a book based on Adams's papers, edited by <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Jon_Davies" class="mw-redirect" title="Kevin Jon Davies">Kevin Jon Davies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-brown_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brown-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The annual <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams_Memorial_Lectures" title="Douglas Adams Memorial Lectures">Douglas Adams Memorial Lectures</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> began in 2003. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <th style="background:#B0C4DE;" scope="col">Year </th> <th style="background:#B0C4DE;" scope="col">Award </th> <th style="background:#B0C4DE;" scope="col">Work </th> <th style="background:#B0C4DE;" scope="col">Category </th> <th style="background:#B0C4DE;" scope="col">Result </th> <th style="background:#B0C4DE;" scope="col">Reference </th></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> <small>(shared with <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Perkins" title="Geoffrey Perkins">Geoffrey Perkins</a>)</small> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Best Dramatic Presentation</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_2"><span id="The_Hitchhiker.27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_2"></span><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th><a href="/wiki/ISBN" title="ISBN">ISBN</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)"><i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i></a> </td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-25864-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-25864-8">0-330-25864-8</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1980 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe" title="The Restaurant at the End of the Universe">The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-39181-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-39181-0">0-345-39181-0</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1982 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything" title="Life, the Universe and Everything">Life, the Universe and Everything</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-26738-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-26738-8">0-330-26738-8</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1984 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish" title="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish">So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-28700-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-28700-1">0-330-28700-1</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mostly_Harmless" title="Mostly Harmless">Mostly Harmless</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-32311-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-32311-3">0-330-32311-3</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dirk_Gently"><i><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Gently" title="Dirk Gently">Dirk Gently</a></i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Dirk Gently"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th><a href="/wiki/ISBN" title="ISBN">ISBN</a> </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1987 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Gently%27s_Holistic_Detective_Agency" title="Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency">Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-69267-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-69267-4">0-671-69267-4</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1988 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Dark_Tea-Time_of_the_Soul" title="The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul">The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-74251-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-74251-5">0-671-74251-5</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt" title="The Salmon of Doubt">The Salmon of Doubt</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-32312-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-32312-1">0-330-32312-1</a> </td> <td>Unfinished novel, <a href="/wiki/Posthumous_publication" title="Posthumous publication">posthumous publication</a> <p>Includes short stories, essays, and interviews by Adams </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_stories">Short stories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Short stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Published In </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1975 </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Genghis_Khan" title="The Private Life of Genghis Khan">The Private Life of Genghis Khan</a>" </td> <td rowspan="4"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Utterly_Utterly_Merry_Comic_Relief_Christmas_Book" title="The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book">The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book</a></i> </td> <td>Co-written with <a href="/wiki/Graham_Chapman" title="Graham Chapman">Graham Chapman</a>, based upon their sketch of the same name </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1986 </td> <td><i>A Christmas Fairly Story</i> </td> <td>Co-written with <a href="/wiki/Terry_Jones" title="Terry Jones">Terry Jones</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Supplement to The Meaning of Liff</i> </td> <td>Co-written with <a href="/wiki/John_Lloyd_(producer)" title="John Lloyd (producer)">John Lloyd</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Young_Zaphod_Plays_It_Safe" title="Young Zaphod Plays It Safe">Young Zaphod Plays It Safe</a>" </td> <td rowspan="3">Set in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a> </i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td rowspan="2">"<a href="/wiki/Young_Zaphod_Plays_It_Safe" title="Young Zaphod Plays It Safe">Young Zaphod Plays It Safe</a>" (revised version) </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wizards_of_Odd" title="The Wizards of Odd">The Wizards of Odd</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt" title="The Salmon of Doubt">The Salmon of Doubt</a></i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th><a href="/wiki/ISBN" title="ISBN">ISBN</a> </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See" title="Last Chance to See">Last Chance to See</a></i> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-345-37198-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-345-37198-0">978-0-345-37198-0</a> </td> <td>Co-written with <a href="/wiki/Mark_Carwardine" title="Mark Carwardine">Mark Carwardine</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_works">Other works</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Other works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1980 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Liar%27s_Autobiography:_Volume_VI" title="A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI">A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI</a></i> </td> <td>Co-written with <a href="/wiki/Graham_Chapman" title="Graham Chapman">Graham Chapman</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Sherlock" class="mw-redirect" title="David Sherlock">David Sherlock</a>, Alex Martin, and <a href="/wiki/David_A._Yallop" class="mw-redirect" title="David A. Yallop">David A. Yallop</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1983 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff" title="The Meaning of Liff">The Meaning of Liff</a></i> </td> <td>Co-written with <a href="/wiki/John_Lloyd_(producer)" title="John Lloyd (producer)">John Lloyd</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1985 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy:_The_Original_Radio_Scripts" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts</a></i> </td> <td>With a foreword by <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Perkins" title="Geoffrey Perkins">Geoffrey Perkins</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1986 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Utterly_Utterly_Merry_Comic_Relief_Christmas_Book" title="The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book">The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book</a></i> </td> <td>As editor with <a href="/wiki/Peter_Fincham" title="Peter Fincham">Peter Fincham</a>. Also contributor, see above </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td><i>The Deeper Meaning of Liff</i> </td> <td>Co-written with <a href="/wiki/John_Lloyd_(producer)" title="John Lloyd (producer)">John Lloyd</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams%27s_Starship_Titanic:_A_Novel" title="Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel">Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel</a></i> </td> <td>By <a href="/wiki/Terry_Jones" title="Terry Jones">Terry Jones</a>, based on Adams' game <i><a href="/wiki/Starship_Titanic" title="Starship Titanic">Starship Titanic</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/H2g2" title="H2g2">h2g2</a> </td> <td>As creator. <p>Open source, online, comic encyclopaedia </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> </td> <td>Posthumous, co-written with <a href="/wiki/Karey_Kirkpatrick" title="Karey Kirkpatrick">Karey Kirkpatrick</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Notes </th> <th>Broadcaster </th></tr> <tr> <td>1974 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i> </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes#6._Party_Political_Broadcast" title="List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes">Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party</a>": <a href="/wiki/Patient_Abuse" title="Patient Abuse">Patient Abuse</a> sketch (1974) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1976 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_the_Trees" title="Out of the Trees">Out of the Trees</a></i> </td> <td>Pilot, co-written with <a href="/wiki/Graham_Chapman" title="Graham Chapman">Graham Chapman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bernard_McKenna_(writer)" title="Bernard McKenna (writer)">Bernard McKenna</a> </td> <td>BBC Two </td></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_on_the_Go" title="Doctor on the Go">Doctor on the Go</a></i> </td> <td>"For Your Own Good" (1977) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1978–1979, 1983 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> </td> <td> <p>4 stories with 13 episodes </p> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Planet" title="The Pirate Planet">The Pirate Planet</a>" (1978, 4 episodes)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Destiny_of_the_Daleks" title="Destiny of the Daleks">Destiny of the Daleks</a>" (1979, 4 episodes) (co-written with <a href="/wiki/Terry_Nation" title="Terry Nation">Terry Nation</a>, uncredited)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/City_of_Death" title="City of Death">City of Death</a>" (co-written with <a href="/wiki/Graham_Williams_(television_producer)" title="Graham Williams (television producer)">Graham Williams</a>, 1979, credited as "<a href="/wiki/David_Agnew" title="David Agnew">David Agnew</a>", 4 episodes)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Five_Doctors" title="The Five Doctors">The Five Doctors</a>" (1983) (clips from his partially filmed but unaired script for 1980s "<a href="/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who)" title="Shada (Doctor Who)">Shada</a>")</li></ul> <p>He was also script editor throughout <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who_season_17" title="Doctor Who season 17">season 17</a> </p> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Snuggles" title="Doctor Snuggles">Doctor Snuggles</a></i> </td> <td>2 episodes; "The Great Disappearing Mystery" and "The Remarkable Fidgety River" </td> <td>ITV </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Not_the_Nine_O%27Clock_News" title="Not the Nine O'Clock News">Not the Nine O'Clock News</a></i> </td> <td>Unknown episodes </td> <td>BBC Two </td></tr> <tr> <td>1981 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> </td> <td>Also creator, adapted from his <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)">radio series</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)">novel of the same name</a> </td> <td>BBC Two </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Hyperland" title="Hyperland">Hyperland</a></i> </td> <td>Documentary </td> <td>BBC Two </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who)" title="Shada (Doctor Who)">Doctor Who: The Lost Episode</a></i> </td> <td>Posthumous release, adapted from the unaired "<a href="/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who)" title="Shada (Doctor Who)">Shada</a>" episode<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC_America" title="BBC America">BBC America</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1978–1984 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> </td> <td>Referred to as <a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Primary_and_Secondary_Phases" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases">The Primary and Secondary Phases</a> of the series. Subsequent episodes were produced following Adams' death </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">2000 </td> <td><i>The Internet: The Last Battleground of the 20th century</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Future" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future</a></i> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Video games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th></tr> <tr> <td>1984 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1987 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)" title="Bureaucracy (video game)">Bureaucracy</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Starship_Titanic" title="Starship Titanic">Starship Titanic</a></i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_animal_rights_advocates" title="List of animal rights advocates">List of animal rights advocates</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot">"Inkpot Award"</a>. 6 December 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Inkpot+Award&rft.date=2012-12-06&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.comic-con.org%2Fawards%2Finkpot&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-radioacad-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-radioacad_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111205051058/http://www.radioacademy.org/hall-of-fame/">"The Radio Academy Hall of Fame"</a>. <i>The Radio Academy</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 May</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=%27Lost%27+gems+from+the+TV+archives&rft.date=2006-12-01&rft.aulast=Young&rft.aufirst=Kevin&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fentertainment%2F6150254.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Webb 2005a, p. 93.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Adams_prologue-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Adams_prologue_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAdams2002">Adams 2002</a>, pp. prologue</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimpson2003">Simpson 2003</a>, p. 87.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roberts, Jem. <i>The Clue Bible: The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue from Footlights to Mornington Crescent</i>: London, 2009, pp. 164–5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERoberts2015129–130-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoberts2015129–130_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRoberts2015">Roberts 2015</a>, pp. 129–130.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCornellDayTopping1995" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Cornell" title="Paul Cornell">Cornell, Paul</a>; <a href="/wiki/Martin_Day_(writer)" title="Martin Day (writer)">Day, Martin</a>; <a href="/wiki/Keith_Topping" title="Keith Topping">Topping, Keith</a> (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/pirateplanet/detail.shtml">"The Pirate Planet"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Discontinuity_Guide" title="The Discontinuity Guide">The Discontinuity Guide</a></i>. London: <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Books" title="Virgin Books">Virgin Books</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-426-20442-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-426-20442-5"><bdi>0-426-20442-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Planet&rft.btitle=The+Discontinuity+Guide&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Virgin+Books&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0-426-20442-5&rft.aulast=Cornell&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft.au=Day%2C+Martin&rft.au=Topping%2C+Keith&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fdoctorwho%2Fclassic%2Fepisodeguide%2Fpirateplanet%2Fdetail.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCornellDayTopping1995" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Cornell" title="Paul Cornell">Cornell, Paul</a>; <a href="/wiki/Martin_Day_(writer)" title="Martin Day (writer)">Day, Martin</a>; <a href="/wiki/Keith_Topping" title="Keith Topping">Topping, Keith</a> (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/cityofdeath/detail.shtml">"City of Death"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Discontinuity_Guide" title="The Discontinuity Guide">The Discontinuity Guide</a></i>. 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Retrieved 12 March 2020</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Felch 2004</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Simpson_236-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Simpson_236_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimpson2003">Simpson 2003</a>, p. 236.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iblist.com/series.php?id=2">Internet Book List</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060220065441/http://www.iblist.com/series.php?id=2">Archived</a> 20 February 2006 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> page, with links to all five novels, and reproductions of the 1990s paperback covers that included the <a href="/wiki/42_Puzzle" class="mw-redirect" title="42 Puzzle">42 Puzzle</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/"><i><span></span></i>The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy<i><span></span></i></a>, Internet Movie Database</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Hitch+Hiker%27s+Guide+to+the+Galaxy&rft.pub=Internet+Movie+Database&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0081874%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdams,_Douglas2005" class="citation book cs1">Adams, Douglas (2005). <a href="/wiki/Dirk_Maggs" title="Dirk Maggs">Maggs, Dirk</a> (ed.). <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 March</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Cdef+Blog&rft.atitle=Travessa+Douglas+Adams&rft.date=2015-11-02&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdef.com.br%2F2015%2F11%2F02%2Ftravessa-douglas-adams%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-brown-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-brown_82-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrown2021" class="citation news cs1">Brown, Mark (22 March 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/douglas-adams-note-to-self-reveals-author-found-writing-torture">"Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 March</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Douglas+Adams%27+note+to+self+reveals+author+found+writing+torture&rft.date=2021-03-22&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2021%2Fmar%2F22%2Fdouglas-adams-note-to-self-reveals-author-found-writing-torture&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://douglasadams.eu/douglas-adams-events/">"Douglas Adams Events"</a>. <i>Life, DNA & H2G2</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 November</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Life%2C+DNA+%26+H2G2&rft.atitle=Douglas+Adams+Events&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdouglasadams.eu%2Fdouglas-adams-events%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStockly2018" class="citation web cs1">Stockly, Ed (18 July 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-tvhighlights-20180719-story.html">"Thursday's TV highlights: 'Doctor Who: The Lost Episode' on BBC America"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 July</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Thursday%27s+TV+highlights%3A+%27Doctor+Who%3A+The+Lost+Episode%27+on+BBC+America&rft.date=2018-07-18&rft.aulast=Stockly&rft.aufirst=Ed&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2Fla-et-st-tvhighlights-20180719-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Adams, Douglas (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/">Is there an Artificial God?</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130302151540/http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/">Archived</a> 2 March 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, speech at <i>Digital Biota 2</i>, Cambridge, England, September 1998.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdams2002" class="citation book cs1">Adams, Douglas (2002). <i>The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time</i>. London: Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-333-76657-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-333-76657-1"><bdi>0-333-76657-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Salmon+of+Doubt%3A+Hitchhiking+the+Galaxy+One+Last+Time&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-333-76657-1&rft.aulast=Adams&rft.aufirst=Douglas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Dawkins, Richard (2003). "Eulogy for Douglas Adams", in <i>A devil's chaplain: reflections on hope, lies, science, and love</i>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.</li> <li>Felch, Laura (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2004_05_002057.php">Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201108195950/http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2004_05_002057.php">Archived</a> 8 November 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, May 2004</li> <li>Ray, Mohit K (2007). <i>Atlantic Companion to Literature in English</i>, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-269-0832-7" title="Special:BookSources/81-269-0832-7">81-269-0832-7</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberts2015" class="citation book cs1">Roberts, Jem (10 September 2015). <i>The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official Biography of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>. London: Arrow Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-09-959076-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-09-959076-7"><bdi>978-0-09-959076-7</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/920836076">920836076</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Frood%3A+The+Authorised+and+Very+Official+Biography+of+Douglas+Adams+%26+The+Hitchhiker%27s+Guide+to+the+Galaxy&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Arrow+Books&rft.date=2015-09-10&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F920836076&rft.isbn=978-0-09-959076-7&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=Jem&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSimpson2003" class="citation book cs1">Simpson, M. J. (2003). <i><a href="/wiki/Hitchhiker:_A_Biography_of_Douglas_Adams" title="Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams">Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams</a></i> (1st ed.). Boston, Mass.: Justin, Charles & Co. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-932112-17-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-932112-17-0"><bdi>1-932112-17-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hitchhiker%3A+A+Biography+of+Douglas+Adams&rft.place=Boston%2C+Mass.&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Justin%2C+Charles+%26+Co.&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=1-932112-17-0&rft.aulast=Simpson&rft.aufirst=M.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADouglas+Adams" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Webb, Nick (2005a). <i>Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams</i>. Ballantine Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-47650-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-47650-6">0-345-47650-6</a></li> <li>Webb, Nick (2005b). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/75853">"Adams, Douglas Noël (1952–2001)"</a>, <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>, Oxford University Press, January 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2005.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles">Articles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li>Herbert, R. (1980). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Book Review)". <i><a href="/wiki/Library_Journal" title="Library Journal">Library Journal</a></i>, 105(16), 1982.</li> <li>Adams, J., & Brown, R. (1981). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Book Review)". <i><a href="/wiki/School_Library_Journal" title="School Library Journal">School Library Journal</a></i>, 27(5), 74.</li> <li>Nickerson, S. L. (1982). "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book)". <i>Library Journal</i>, 107(4), 476.</li> <li>Nickerson, S. L. (1982). "Life, the Universe, and Everything (Book)". <i>Library Journal</i>, 107(18), 2007.</li> <li>Morner, C. (1982). "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book Review)". <i>School Library Journal</i>, 28(8), 87.</li> <li>Morner, C. (1983). "Life, the Universe and Everything (Book Review)". <i>School Library Journal</i>, 29(6), 93.</li> <li>Shorb, B. (1985). "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Book)". <i>School Library Journal</i>, 31(6), 90.</li> <li>"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Book)" (1989). <i><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic magazine">Atlantic</a></i> (02769077), 263(4), 99.</li> <li>Hoffert, B., & Quinn, J. (1990). "Last Chance To See (Book)". <i>Library Journal</i>, 115(16), 77.</li> <li>Reed, S. S., & Cook, I. I. (1991). "Dances with Kakapos". <i><a href="/wiki/People_(magazine)" title="People (magazine)">People</a></i>, 35(19), 79.</li> <li>"Last Chance to See (Book)" (1991). <i>Science News</i>, 139(8), 126.</li> <li>Field, M. M., & Steinberg, S. S. (1991). "Douglas Adams". <i><a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly</a></i>, 238(6), 62.</li> <li>Dieter, W. (1991). "Last Chance to See (Book)". <i><a href="/wiki/Smithsonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Smithsonian">Smithsonian</a></i>, 22(3), 140.</li> <li>Dykhuis, R. (1991). "Last Chance To See (Book)". <i>Library Journal</i>, 116(1), 140.</li> <li>Beatty, J. (1991). "Good Show (Book)". <i>Atlantic</i> (02769077), 267(3), 131.</li> <li>"A guide to the future" (1992). <i>Maclean's</i>, 106(44), 51.</li> <li>Zinsser, J. (1993). "Audio reviews: Fiction". <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, 240(9), 24.</li> <li>Taylor, B., & Annichiarico, M. (1993). Audio reviews. <i>Library Journal</i>, 118(2), 132.</li> <li>Good reads (1995). <i>NetGuide</i>, 2(4), 109.</li> <li>Stone, B. (1998). The unsinkable starship. <i><a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i>, 131(15), 78.</li> <li>Gaslin, G. (2001). Galaxy Quest. <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> (599), 79.</li> <li>"So long, and thanks for all the fish" (2001). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i>, 359(8222), 79.</li> <li>Geier, T., & Raftery, B. M. (2001). "Legacy". <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> (597), 11.</li> <li>"Passages" (2001). <i><a href="/wiki/Maclean%27s" title="Maclean's">Maclean's</a></i>, 114(21), 13.</li> <li>"Don't panic! Douglas Adams to keynote Embedded show" (2001). <i>Embedded Systems Programming</i>, 14(3), 10.</li> <li>Ehrenman, G. (2001). "World Wide Weird". <i>InternetWeek</i>, (862), 15.</li> <li>Zaleski, J. (2002). "The Salmon of Doubt (Book)". <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, 249(15), 43.</li> <li>Mort, J. (2002). "The Salmon of Doubt (Book)". <i><a href="/wiki/Booklist" title="Booklist">Booklist</a></i>, 98(16), 1386.</li> <li>Lewis, D. L. (2002). "Last Time Round The Galaxy". <i><a href="/wiki/Quadrant_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Quadrant Magazine">Quadrant Magazine</a></i>, 46(9), 84.</li> <li>Burns, A. (2002). "The Salmon of Doubt (Book)". <i>Library Journal</i>, 127(15), 111.</li> <li>Burns, A., & Rhodes, B. (2002). "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book)". <i>Library Journal</i>, 127(19), 118.</li> <li>Kaveney, R. (2002). "A cheerful whale". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">TLS</a></i> (5173), 23.</li> <li>Pearl, N., & Welch, R. (2003). "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Book)". <i>Library Journal</i>, 128(11), 124.</li> <li>"Preying on composite materials" (2003). <i>R&D Magazine</i>, 45(6), 44.</li> <li>Webb, N. (2003). "The Berkeley Hotel hostage". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bookseller" title="The Bookseller">The Bookseller</a></i> (5069), 25.</li> <li>"The author who toured the universe" (2003). <i>The Bookseller</i> (5060), 35.</li> <li>Osmond, A. (2005). "Only human". <i><a href="/wiki/Sight_%26_Sound" class="mw-redirect" title="Sight & Sound">Sight & Sound</a></i>, 15(5), 12–15.</li> <li>"Culture vulture" (2005). <i><a href="/wiki/Times_Educational_Supplement" class="mw-redirect" title="Times Educational Supplement">Times Educational Supplement</a></i>, (4640), 19.</li> <li>Maughan, S. (2005). "Audio Bestsellers/Fiction". <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, 252(30), 17.</li> <li>"Hitchhiker At The Science Museum" (2005). <i>In Britain</i>, 14(10), 9.</li> <li>Rea, A. (2005). The Adams asteroids. <i><a href="/wiki/New_Scientist" title="New Scientist">New Scientist</a></i>, 185(2488), 31.</li> <li>"Most Improbable Adventure" (2005). <i>Popular Mechanics</i>, 182(5), 32.</li> <li>"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase" (2005). <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, 252(14), 21.</li> <li>Bartelt, K. R. (2005). "Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams". <i>Library Journal</i>, 130(4), 86.</li> <li>Larsen, D. (2005). "I was a teenage android". <i>New Zealand Listener</i>, 198(3390), 37–38.</li> <li>Tanner, J. C. (2005). "Simplicity: it's hard". <i>Telecom Asia</i>, 16(6), 6.</li> <li>Nielsen Bookscan Charts (2005). <i>The Bookseller</i>, (5175), 18–21.</li> <li>"Buena Vista launches regional site to push Hitchhiker's movie" (2005). <i>New Media Age</i>, 9.</li> <li>"Shynola bring Beckland to life" (2005). <i>Creative Review</i>, 25(3), 24–26.</li> <li>Carwardine, M. (15 September 2007). "The baiji: So long and thanks for all the fish". <i>New Scientist</i>. pp. 50–53.</li> <li>Czarniawska, B. (2008). "Accounting and gender across times and places: An excursion into fiction". <i>Accounting, Organizations & Society</i>, 33(1), 33–47.</li> <li>Pope, M. (2008). "Life, the Universe, Religion and Science". <i>Issues</i> (82), 31–34.</li> <li>Bearne, S. (2008). "BBC builds site to trail Last Chance To See TV series". <i>New Media Age</i>, 08.</li> <li>"Arrow to reissue Adams" (2008). <i>The Bookseller</i> (5352), 14.</li> <li>Page, B. (2008). "Colfer is new Hitchhiker". <i>The Bookseller</i> (5350), 7.</li> <li>"I've got a perfect puzzle for you" (2009). <i>The Bookseller</i> (5404), 42.</li> <li>"Mostly Harmless..." (2009). <i>The Bookseller</i> (5374), 46.</li> <li>"Penguin and PanMac hitch a ride together" (2009). <i>The Bookseller</i> (5373), 6.</li> <li>"Adams, Douglas". Britannica Biographies [serial online]. October 2010;:1</li> <li>"Douglas (Noël) Adams (1952–2001)". Hutchinson's Biography Database [serial online]. July 2011;:1</li> <li>"My life in books" (2011). <i>Times Educational Supplement</i> (4940), 27.</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Adams&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110720193159/http://www.douglasadams.com/">Adams's official web site</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (archived 20 July 2011), established by him, and still operated by <a href="/wiki/The_Digital_Village" class="mw-redirect" title="The Digital Village">The Digital Village</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ted.com/speakers/douglas_adams">Douglas Adams</a> at <a href="/wiki/TED_(conference)" title="TED (conference)">TED</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/">Douglas Adams speech at Digital Biota 2 (1998)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130302151540/http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/">Archived</a> 2 March 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biota.org/podcast/#DNA">(The audio of the speech)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080129164511/http://www.biota.org/podcast/#DNA">Archived</a> 29 January 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/09/douglasadams">Guardian Books "Author Page"</a>, with profile and links to further articles.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vintagemacworld.com/iifx.html">Douglas Adams & his Computer</a> article about his Mac IIfx</li> <li>BBC2 <a href="/wiki/Omnibus_(British_TV_programme)" title="Omnibus (British TV programme)"><i>Omnibus</i></a> tribute to Adams, presented by Kirsty Wark, 4 August 2001</li> <li>Mueller, Rick and Greengrass, Joel (2002). <i>Life, The Universe and Douglas Adams</i>, documentary.</li> <li>Simpson, M. J. (2001). <i>The Pocket Essential Hitchhiker's Guide</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903047-40-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-903047-40-4">1-903047-40-4</a>. 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href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Planet" title="The Pirate Planet">The Pirate Planet</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/City_of_Death" title="City of Death">City of Death</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who)" title="Shada (Doctor Who)">Shada</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> (TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hyperland" title="Hyperland">Hyperland</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> (film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a 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<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Future" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future</a></i> (BBC radio series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Utterly_Utterly_Merry_Comic_Relief_Christmas_Book" title="The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book">The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="The_Hitchhiker&#039;s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_by_Douglas_Adams252" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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the Galaxy">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Douglas Adams</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Main series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe" title="The Restaurant at the End of the Universe">The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything" title="Life, the Universe and Everything">Life, the Universe and Everything</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish" title="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish">So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mostly_Harmless" title="Mostly Harmless">Mostly Harmless</a></i> (1992)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Young_Zaphod_Plays_It_Safe" title="Young Zaphod Plays It Safe">Young Zaphod Plays It Safe</a>" (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams%27s_Starship_Titanic:_A_Novel" title="Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel">Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt" title="The Salmon of Doubt">The Salmon of Doubt</a></i> (2002)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">by <a href="/wiki/Eoin_Colfer" title="Eoin Colfer">Eoin Colfer</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/And_Another_Thing..._(novel)" title="And Another Thing... (novel)">And Another Thing…</a></i> (2009)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)">Radio series</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Primary_and_Secondary_Phases" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases">Phases 1 and 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Tertiary_to_Hexagonal_Phases" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases">Phases 3, 4, 5, and 6</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy:_The_Original_Radio_Scripts" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts">The Original Radio Scripts</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)">1981 TV series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)">2005 film</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_versions" title="Timeline of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy versions">Timeline of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> versions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_cast_lists" title="The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cast lists">Cast lists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_characters" title="List of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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Goddesses of Phobos">Leather Goddesses of Phobos</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobos_2:_Gas_Pump_Girls_Meet_the_Pulsating_Inconvenience_from_Planet_X!" title="Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X!">Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>Planetfall</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Planetfall" title="Planetfall">Planetfall</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stationfall" title="Stationfall">Stationfall</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" 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the Galaxy (video game)">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Hijinx" title="Hollywood Hijinx">Hollywood Hijinx</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Infidel_(video_game)" title="Infidel (video game)">Infidel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Journey_(1989_video_game)" title="Journey (1989 video game)">Journey</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lurking_Horror" title="The Lurking Horror">The Lurking Horror</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging" title="A Mind Forever Voyaging">A Mind Forever Voyaging</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moonmist" title="Moonmist">Moonmist</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nord_and_Bert_Couldn%27t_Make_Head_or_Tail_of_It" title="Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It">Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Plundered_Hearts" title="Plundered Hearts">Plundered Hearts</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Seastalker" title="Seastalker">Seastalker</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sherlock:_The_Riddle_of_the_Crown_Jewels" title="Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels">Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/James_Clavell%27s_Sh%C5%8Dgun" title="James Clavell's Shōgun">James Clavell's Shōgun</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Starcross_(video_game)" title="Starcross (video game)">Starcross</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Suspect_(video_game)" title="Suspect (video game)">Suspect</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Suspended_(video_game)" title="Suspended (video game)">Suspended</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)" title="Trinity (video game)">Trinity</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wishbringer" title="Wishbringer">Wishbringer</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witness_(1983_video_game)" title="The Witness (1983 video game)">The Witness</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other titles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cornerstone_(software)" title="Cornerstone (software)">Cornerstone</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fooblitzky" title="Fooblitzky">Fooblitzky</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quarterstaff:_The_Tomb_of_Setmoth" title="Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth">Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Implementers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Anderson_(programmer)" title="Tim Anderson (programmer)">Tim Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Bates" title="Bob Bates">Bob Bates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Berlyn" title="Michael Berlyn">Michael Berlyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Blank" title="Marc Blank">Marc Blank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Briggs" title="Amy Briggs">Amy Briggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Lebling" title="Dave Lebling">Dave Lebling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Meretzky" title="Steve Meretzky">Steve Meretzky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Moriarty" title="Brian Moriarty">Brian Moriarty</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Douglas Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Daniels" title="Bruce Daniels">Bruce Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Vezza" title="Al Vezza">Al Vezza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Ybarra" title="Joe Ybarra">Joe Ybarra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Companies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Activision" title="Activision">Activision</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legend_Entertainment" title="Legend Entertainment">Legend Entertainment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westwood_Studios" title="Westwood Studios">Westwood Studios</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Classic_Text_Adventure_Masterpieces_of_Infocom" title="Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom">Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Get_Lamp" title="Get Lamp">Get Lamp</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grue_(monster)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grue (monster)">Grue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feelie" title="Feelie">Feelie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/InvisiClues" title="InvisiClues">InvisiClues</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Legends_of_Zork" title="Legends of Zork">Legends of Zork</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Return_to_Zork" title="Return to Zork">Return to Zork</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom" title="The Lost Treasures of Infocom">The Lost Treasures of Infocom</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Z-machine" title="Z-machine">Z-machine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zork:_Grand_Inquisitor" title="Zork: Grand Inquisitor">Zork: Grand Inquisitor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zork_Nemesis" title="Zork Nemesis">Zork Nemesis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zork:_The_Undiscovered_Underground" title="Zork: The Undiscovered Underground">Zork: The Undiscovered Underground</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Inkpot_Award_(1980s)296" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Inkpot_Award_1980s" title="Template:Inkpot Award 1980s"><abbr title="View this 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href="/wiki/John_Byrne_(comics)" title="John Byrne (comics)">John Byrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Chan" title="Ernie Chan">Ernie Chan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Claremont" title="Chris Claremont">Chris Claremont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shary_Flenniken" title="Shary Flenniken">Shary Flenniken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Friedrich" title="Mike Friedrich">Mike Friedrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Geary" title="Rick Geary">Rick Geary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Glut" class="mw-redirect" title="Don Glut">Don Glut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Gross" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Gross">S. Gross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Hartley" title="Al Hartley">Al Hartley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Kliban" title="B. Kliban">B. Kliban</a></li> <li>Jerry Muller</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Orlando" title="Joe Orlando">Joe Orlando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Patten" title="Fred Patten">Fred Patten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Phelps" title="Don Phelps">Don Phelps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wendy_and_Richard_Pini" title="Wendy and Richard Pini">Richard Pini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wendy_and_Richard_Pini" title="Wendy and Richard Pini">Wendy Pini</a></li> <li>David Raskin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Shaw_(artist)" title="Scott Shaw (artist)">Scott Shaw!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Shooter" title="Jim Shooter">Jim Shooter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stanley_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Stanley (comics)">John Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._Taylor" title="B. K. Taylor">B. K. Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka" title="Osamu Tezuka">Osamu Tezuka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_West" title="Adam West">Adam West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wally_Wood" title="Wally Wood">Wally Wood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Bails" title="Jerry Bails">Jerry Bails</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._B._Cole" title="L. B. Cole">L. B. Cole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Fitzpatrick_(artist)" title="Jim Fitzpatrick (artist)">Jim Fitzpatrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Giordano" title="Dick Giordano">Dick Giordano</a></li> <li>Dave Graue</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Gulacy" title="Paul Gulacy">Paul Gulacy</a></li> <li>Mary Henderson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hubenthal" title="Karl Hubenthal">Karl Hubenthal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bil_Keane" title="Bil Keane">Bil Keane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Miller" title="Frank Miller">Frank Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Moench" title="Doug Moench">Doug Moench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monkey_Punch" title="Monkey Punch">Monkey Punch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_O%27Neil" title="Dennis O'Neil">Dennis O'Neil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Owens" title="Gary Owens">Gary Owens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Rockwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Rockwell">Richard Rockwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_Saunders" title="Allen Saunders">Allen Saunders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Schwartz" title="Julius Schwartz">Julius Schwartz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Sekowsky" title="Mike Sekowsky">Mike Sekowsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Sienkiewicz" title="Bill Sienkiewicz">Bill Sienkiewicz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Sim" title="Dave Sim">Dave Sim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Toth" title="Alex Toth">Alex Toth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morrie_Turner" title="Morrie Turner">Morrie Turner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Woggon" title="Bill Woggon">Bill Woggon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1982</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Bindig" title="Bob Bindig">Bob Bindig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Bolland" title="Brian Bolland">Brian Bolland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ_Cochran_(publisher)" title="Russ Cochran (publisher)">Russ Cochran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Cockrum" class="mw-redirect" title="David Cockrum">David Cockrum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Allan_Collins" title="Max Allan Collins">Max Allan Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chase_Craig" title="Chase Craig">Chase Craig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archie_Goodwin_(comics)" title="Archie Goodwin (comics)">Archie Goodwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Grell" title="Mike Grell">Mike Grell</a></li> <li>Bruce Hamilton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Katz_(artist)" title="Jack Katz (artist)">Jack Katz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Kazanjian" title="Howard Kazanjian">Howard Kazanjian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Ketcham" title="Hank Ketcham">Hank Ketcham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Koenig" title="Walter Koenig">Walter Koenig</a></li> <li>Richard Kyle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Marrs" title="Lee Marrs">Lee Marrs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Marshall_(filmmaker)" title="Frank Marshall (filmmaker)">Frank Marshall</a></li> <li>John Pound</li> <li>Tony Raiola</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Starr" title="Leonard Starr">Leonard Starr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Williams_(artist)" title="Robert Williams (artist)">Robert Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1983</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Douglas Adams</a></li> <li>Maeheah Alzmann</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Aparo" title="Jim Aparo">Jim Aparo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Bluth" title="Don Bluth">Don Bluth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floyd_Gottfredson" title="Floyd Gottfredson">Floyd Gottfredson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Maurer" title="Norman Maurer">Norman Maurer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_P%C3%A9rez" title="George Pérez">George Pérez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arn_Saba" class="mw-redirect" title="Arn Saba">Arn Saba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Spiegle" title="Dan Spiegle">Dan Spiegle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Staton" title="Joe Staton">Joe Staton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Van_Hise" title="James Van Hise">James Van Hise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cat_Yronwode" class="mw-redirect" title="Cat Yronwode">Cat Yronwode</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1984</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murphy_Anderson" title="Murphy Anderson">Murphy Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A1n_Ar%C3%A1mbula" title="Román Arámbula">Román Arámbula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Bear" title="Greg Bear">Greg Bear</a></li> <li>Fae Gates Desmond</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Drake" title="Stan Drake">Stan Drake</a></li> <li>John Field</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Hoberg" title="Rick Hoberg">Rick Hoberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Jein" title="Greg Jein">Greg Jein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ollie_Johnston" title="Ollie Johnston">Ollie Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brant_Parker" title="Brant Parker">Brant Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Shayne" title="Robert Shayne">Robert Shayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curt_Swan" title="Curt Swan">Curt Swan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Thomas_(animator)" title="Frank Thomas (animator)">Frank Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Valentino" title="Jim Valentino">Jim Valentino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Williamson" title="Al Williamson">Al Williamson</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1985</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Anderson_(comics)" title="Brent Anderson (comics)">Brent Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Bova" title="Ben Bova">Ben Bova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Brin" title="David Brin">David Brin</a></li> <li>Jack Cummings</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Davis_(cartoonist)" title="Jack Davis (cartoonist)">Jack Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_O%27Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Orzechowski" title="Tom Orzechowski">Tom Orzechowski</a></li> <li>John Rogers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Schomburg" title="Alex Schomburg">Alex Schomburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Simonson" title="Walt Simonson">Walt Simonson</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1986</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley" title="Marion Zimmer Bradley">Marion Zimmer Bradley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Gibbons" title="Dave Gibbons">Dave Gibbons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Giraud" title="Jean Giraud">Jean "Moebius" Giraud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Hernandez" title="Gilbert Hernandez">Gilbert Hernandez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaime_Hernandez" title="Jaime Hernandez">Jaime Hernandez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Kitchen" title="Denis Kitchen">Denis Kitchen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Leialoha" title="Steve Leialoha">Steve Leialoha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Nodell" class="mw-redirect" title="Marty Nodell">Marty Nodell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Pekar" title="Harvey Pekar">Harvey Pekar</a></li> <li>Mark Stadler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Stevens" title="Dave Stevens">Dave Stevens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1987</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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