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The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1994-10-11
Douglas Adams Starship Titanic:The Official Strategy Guide by Neil Richards, 1998-06-09
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy, Omnibus Edition by Douglas Adams, 1985-10-09
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams, 2002-03-08
Mostly Harmless: Complete & Unabridged (Word for Word) by Douglas Adams, 2002-11-11
A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI by Graham Chapman, Douglas Adams, et all 1980
Le Dernier Restaurant Avant La Fin De Monde (French Edition) by Douglas Adams, 1999-03-03
Dirk Gently: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatization by Douglas Adams, 2009-09-08
Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide Deluxe Edition (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) by Douglas Adams, 2005
DOUGLAS ADAMS' STARSHIP TITANIC: OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE by NEIL RICHARDS, 1998
The Making of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Filming of the Douglas Adams Classic by Disney, 2005-04
Wissenschaft Bei Douglas Adams (German Edition)
A Liar''s autobiography; volume vii, and David Sherlock, and also Alex Martin, oh, and David Yallop, and also too by Douglas Adams (whose autobiography it isn''t), with drawings by Jonathan Hills. by Graham Chapman, 1980

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The Status Line, Winter/Spring 1987
Text of game announcement from Infocom's newsletter.
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/Tslspr87.html#bureaucracy

Extractions: See page 6 Volume VI Number 1 Formerly The New Zork Times Winter/Spring 1987 Not very long ago, Douglas Adams (who is, as everyone knows, the best-selling author of that zany interactive story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ) moved from one apartment in London to another. He dutifully notified everyone of his new address, including his bank. In fact, he personally went to the bank and filled out a change-of-address form. Soon after, Douglas found that he was unable to use his credit card. He discovered that the card had been invalidated by the bank. Apparently, the bank had sent a new card to his old address. For weeks, Douglas tried to get the bank to acknowledge his change-of-address form. He talked to bank officials, and filled out new forms, and applied for another credit card, but nothing worked. He had no credit, and the bank behaved like... well, like a bank. It's a sad story, one that's replayed every day for millions of people worldwide. Of course, it's not always a bank at fault. Sometimes it's the postal service, or the telephone company, or an airline, or the government. All of us, at one time or another, feel persecuted by a bureaucracy. What can be done?
Quotes - Douglas Adams , Douglas Adams Quotations, Douglas Adams Sayings - Famou
douglas adams Quotes, douglas adams Quotations, douglas adams Sayings Famous Quotes About -douglas adams Author, Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy.
http://home.att.net/~quotesabout/douglasadams.html

Extractions: These quotes have been contributed and attributed by members of the Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings Network and many were previously posted to The Famous Quotes Mailing List. Please let me know if you find any errors or omissions or if you want to contribute. One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat worksyou take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.
DNA/Movie
An official source of information about the movie.
http://www.douglasadams.com/movie/

Extractions: MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_09_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_08_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_07_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_06_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_04_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_03_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_02_02over.gif'); The Movie 'When it comes down to it, my principle is this - Arthur should be British. The rest of the cast should be decided purely on merit and not on nationality.' DNA After what seems like seven and a half million years, the film adaptation of Hitchhiker's is finally underway. Anything published here is at the request of the production team or Douglas's family and friends, who claim it's far easier than mailing you all individually. So, while rumour and speculation are bound to abound elsewhere, this is the only official source for information Cast Arthur Martin Freeman Ford Mos Def Humma Kavula John Malkovich Marvin Warwick Davis Mr. Prosser
Douglas Adams
Pr©sentation, citations, traduction d'un entretien r©alis© par le magazine Delos.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/branchum/adams.htm

Extractions: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) , Le Guide du Routard galactique La traduction d'une interview laconique de Douglas Adams par le magazine Delos Fondation en fait sept !) Guide du Routard Galactique Date Divertissement 1) Le guide galactique 2) Le dernier restaurant avant la fin du monde 3) La vie, l'univers et le reste 4) Salut, et merci pour le poisson 5) Globalement inoffensive Date Divertissement 1) Un cheval dans la salle de bains par Terry Jones Date Divertissement Starship Titanic so british des deux hommes. Retour au sommaire
Douglas Adams --- (Virtuální Knihomolna)
douglas adams, autor kultovní petidílné trilogie Stoparuv pruvodce po galaxii. ivot. Plným jménem douglas Noel adams (DNA) se narodil 11.
http://www.pismak.cz/knihomolna/adams/

Extractions: ivot Plným jménem Douglas Noel Adams (D.N.A.) se narodil 11. bøezna 1952 v Cambridgi, kde také vystudoval angliètinu na St. John's College. Ne se stal veleúspìným spisovatelem, pracoval jako vrátný v nemocnici, bodyguard, stavìl stodoly a uklízel v drùbeárnì. Pozdìji zaèal pracovat v rozhlase jako reisér ( Stopaøùv prùvodce také vznikl nejprve jako rozhlasové pásmo) a také v televizi. V roce 1991 si vzal Jane Belsonovou. il v Islingtonu, mìl dceru Polly a poèítaè Apple Macintosh. Adams byl dlouho jedinou literární celebritou na netu, delí dobu osobnì odpovídal na dotazy na Usenet - alt.fan.douglas-adams , ale prý ho to pøestalo bavit po nìkterých zvlá stupidních otázkách. Douglas nebyl v poèítaèovém svìtì ádným nováèkem, napsal napøíklad Stopaøùv prùvodce po Macintoshi - døív prý, kdy nemìl inspiraci, tak jedl, pozdìji radi pøeinstalovával poèítaè (na Applu to mùe být fajn, uivatelùm Woken to rozhodnì nedoporuèuji :-))
Douglas Adams @ Catharton Authors
douglas adams. 1952 May 2001. douglas adams died suddenly of a heart attack in May 2001. Bored? Meet people at Café Catharton Websites The Official Site.
http://www.catharton.com/authors/85.htm

Extractions: A pioneer of combining witty comedy with science fiction, Douglas Adams is best know by far for his BBC radio series (and spin-off novels and tv series) called the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The story (in all its incarnations) concerns an Englishman called Arthur Dent who finds out one of his friends, Ford Prefect, comes from Alpha Centauri and has spent the past few years on Earth researching its culture, history and population for inclusion in a remarkable book, a guide to all the planets in the galaxy. He's rather shocked therefore that Prefect's chosen summary of Earth is 'Mostly Harmless'. Prefect explains that originally the editor just wanted it to read 'Harmless' but Ford valiantly fought for the inclusion of the second word. Adams had been employed in many walks of life before turning to writing, including a stint as a bodyguard along with (according to Adams) the then unknown comedian Griff Rhys-Jones. Their brief was to reassuringly tag along with the VIPs they were meant to be protecting, but at the first sign of trouble to 'leg it', as there was very little a pair of untrained idiots could do to stop bullets, knives and fists. Adams contributed a script, 'The Pirate Planet', to the long-running tv series 'Doctor Who' during the mid-70s. He later became the series' script editor as well as writing another two stories himself. One of these, Shada, had almost completed filming when it had to be abandoned due to industrial action at the BBC. It was never shown, but many of its elements appeared in Adams' first post-Hitchiker novel, 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'.
Douglas Adams Books - Hitchhikers Guide
The Works of douglas adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe and other books - from Brough s Books. The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy by douglas adams.
http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/literature/douglas_adams.htm

Extractions: Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker's Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and British sitcoms. - Amazon.com
Humorous Fiction
Reader's recommendations of Terry Pratchett, douglas adams, and other authors.
http://www.rumil.de/fun.html
The Final Grandson Of Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged
An insult generation program based on a character in douglas adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
http://www.wowbagger.com/

Extractions: This page was last updated April 15 th This is the support site of the cult insult generation program "Wowbagger", full name "The Second Reincarnation of the Final Grandson of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged". It is a Windows program with functionality based on the behaviour of the Wowbagger character from the Douglas Adams books. There is no other program that can generate more insults...guaranteed!
Adams, Douglas Book At The Best Price
Buy adams, douglas books from the best shops. Browse by author adams, douglas (125 of 41). 1. Title Hitch-hiker s Guide to the Galaxy, The.
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Extractions: Truss, Lynne ... more top books > Tolkien, J.R.R. Blyton, Enid Rowling, J.K. Pratchett, Terry ... A Adams, Douglas Browse by author : Adams, Douglas (1-25 of 41) Title: Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Author(s): Adams, Douglas One Thursday lunchtime Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has just had his house demolished that morning, this... more Title: Douglas Adams Picador Boxset Author(s): Adams, Douglas more Title: Deeper Meaning of Liff, The Author(s): Lloyd, John Adams, Douglas The updated, revised edition of "The Meaning of Liff", with illustrations from "Private Eye" cartoonist Bert Kitchen. more Title: Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Author(s): Adams, Douglas On Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house... more Title: Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (MP3 CD), The
The Wonderful World Of Nesia Xavier
douglas adamsrelated humor, Monty Python and various other skits.
http://www.geocities.com/nesia_xavier/index.html

Extractions: This is my first website. Don't say I didn't warn you I'm a raving lunatic! :-P The spleen is a bodily organ that filters blood! Mr.Popo is from DBZ (Dragon Ball Z for anyone who doesn't know). I love Dragons and Monty Python hence the fact there are sections! sign the guest book even to flame my site! Do not enjoy! Just kidding!
Adams, Douglas Book At The Best Price
Buy adams, douglas books from the best shops. Browse by author adams, douglas (2641 of 41). 26. Title So Long and Thanks for All the Fish.
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Extractions: Truss, Lynne ... more top books > Tolkien, J.R.R. Blyton, Enid Rowling, J.K. Pratchett, Terry ... A Adams, Douglas Browse by author : Adams, Douglas (26-41 of 41) Title: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Author(s): Adams, Douglas Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe... more Title: Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Author(s): Adams, Douglas more Title: Prostitute in the Family Tree, The Author(s): Adams, Douglas more Title: Douglas Adams's Guide to "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Author(s): Adams, Douglas A recording compiled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the popular comic science fiction series. It is introduced by the author and features clips from... more Title: So Long and Thanks for All the Cheese Author(s): Adams, Douglas
Douglas Adams - A Science Fiction Writer?
douglas adams a science fiction writer? Introduction - what is science fiction? Other aspects of douglas adams. 4.1 Non-Hitch Hiker books. 4.2 Pink Floyd.
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~creighto/dna/Overview.html
DNA/The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy - The Adventure Game
Play the text adventure online using Java on douglas adams' website.
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocom.html

Extractions: MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_09_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_08_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_07_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_06_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_04_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_03_02over.gif'); MM_preloadImages('/images/arch_layout_02_02over.gif'); The Infocom adventure is rightly remembered as a classic of its time - the mere mention of Babel Fish or intelligent doors still provokes nervous reactions in those who regularly stayed up until the early hours trying to defeat the fiendish puzzles. It was one of the best-selling games of 1985, shifting over 250,000 copies that year alone! It also won many "Game Of The Year" awards from various magazines and organisations, and is still remembered as one of the best (if not the best) pieces of interactive fiction ever produced. If you're very, very lucky, you might uncover a copy of the aptly-named "Lost Treasures Of Infocom" compendium, which includes HHG. ...and now you can play it here LANGUAGE: English
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http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/authors/A/Adams,Douglas.mbox
TechTV | Big Thinkers
Interview show with high tech visionaries such as douglas adams, Stewart Brand, Alvin Toffler, Esther Dyson, Bruce Sterling and Gordon Campbell
http://www.techtv.com/bigthinkers/
Sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/books/A/Adams,Douglas.mbox
http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/books/A/Adams,Douglas.mbox

Extractions: euatdt@euas11g.ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist) writes: >Differences between the US and UK editions of Douglas Adams' "Life, the >Universe and Everything". ... >So, here follows a list of the differences I've found. I've used two paperback >editions - UK "Pan" from 1982 and US "Pocket" from 1983. >Differences in actual wording: ... Add in another one. In the UK, it sounds like a hundred thousand people are saying "wop." In the US, that becomes "whop," no doubt because the first form is most commonly used as derogatory ethnic slang. Ken Kaufman (kaufman@gmu90x.gmu.edu) From archive (archive) Subject: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy From: SVISSAG@clemson.clemson.EDU (Steve L Vissage II) Date: 14 Aug 89 16:53:00 GMT I hate to beat a dog that's already dead, but... After the recent discussion of HGttG, the Belgium incident, and censorship, I found, in my county library's non-fiction department, a book called "The Original Hitchhiker Radio Transcripts". It has an introduction by Douglas Adams, and an introduction and several lengthy footnotes by Geoffrey Perkins, the producer, all of which indicate that these are, more or less, the original scripts presented on the Radio shows. (I say "more or less" because there are slight changes. For instance, these scripts include what was cut from Adams's originals for time constraints, etc.) I've read the whole thing, and there's no permanent party above whatever planet that was, and no award for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium", or any other word. However, the little speech about words such as joojooflop, swut and turlingdrome no longer being taboo, and there still being one word so vile it is only spoken on one backward planet where they don't know what it means, and by Zaphod Beeblebrox when he is in "sitituations of dire provocation", is in there. The word is Belgium, and Zaphod says "Belgium, man, Belgium!" immediately after this speech. He's in a situation of dire provocation, of course. If I may be allowed to speculate, it seems that when Adams wrote the party sequence for the British version of the books, he just put the first thing that came to his mind in the "Most Gratuitous Use of.." line, ie fuck. But when he rewrote it for the American printing, for whatever reason, he perhaps thought "This would be a perfect place for that Belgium speech!" In any event, as these scripts are presented as the originals, it seems that Belgium came first, but in a different place. I'm not sure this is particularly important, but the Belgium thing was bugging me. By the way, if any of you haven't read these transcripts, quite a bit of it is not included in the books, and some of it is really hilarious. Steve L Vissage II From archive (archive) Subject: Re: Dirk: Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (what happened?) From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Date: 21 Feb 90 03:52:47 GMT bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Scott Kendig) writes: > LDTTotS (pardon my acronyms) was very thin and very ineffective, not > to mention insubstantial. (And did I mention thin? Plotwise, of > course.) Its plot was very silly and was never concluded in many > places. For example: the during the entire first half of the novel, > Dirk is preoccupied with finding the whereabouts of his former > secretary who is now the missing airline ticket clerk. During the entire first half? That's exaggerating it a little. He was much more concerned with finding out why his client had died in a locked room, what the mysterious envelope held, and how to get the homicidal eagle out of his living room. He only mentioned his secretary a couple of times that I remember. > Another instance: in Odin's hospital, the heroine WhatsHerFace > tells Thor and Odin that she knows exactly what they can go do with > their lives now, but she won't tell until Thor tells her how many > stones there are in wherever-it-is. "I told you I lost count!" he > roars the chapter ends, and we never learn the lady's idea... Yes you learn it, because she implemented it. The idea was that Odin would write his will leaving all his money to the Woodshead(?) hospital, and in return they would take care of him for the rest of his life. They frequently made deals with patients like this - this is mentioned earlier in the book. They didn't realize he was immortal, of course... > All things considered, the story looks like what I would have written > if I were sitting in a nice quiet room, working up a good ending, and > a little old lady were to poke her head in all of a sudden and scream > "Deadline's in two hours!" You must have missed 90% of the book. There are cross-references back and forth to all sorts of things: the jet fighter pilot (along with his wife, her lottery winnings, and Dirk's foretunetelling business), the grey-panelled truck, Valhalla superimposed on the St. Pancras railway station and hotel, the contract (the hot potato), Dirk's old refrigerator which was incubating a new god of guilt, the advertising account manager with the red glasses and the lawyer husband, and so on. The book was so tightly woven that I wanted a hypertext system to keep all the threads straight. I never figured out the reference to frogs though. "Frogs... I used to like... frogs". Where are there frogs in Norse mythology? > If some more intelligent character on this Net could kindly explain to > me what for cat's sake went on over those last forty pages or so, I'd > be most appreciative! Until then - I'm as confused as the rest of me. >>>> Believe me, everything makes sense (if you're as twisted as I am). Already in the book, Odin had stolen the power of all of the rest of the gods, and had sold it to the lawyer and ad-executive in exchange for their financing his stay at the Woodshead. The contract negotiating this deal specified that the contract-holder would have a "nice life" for a while, then would die. The lawyer and ad-exec had sold off the contract to a number of people, who used the gods' power to write hit songs and best-seller books, take over markets, etc. The contract was in Dirk's client's hands when it expired, and the guy (whose name I forget) was killed. Thor challenged Odin, claiming that the contract was a violation of Odin's responsibilities as chief god. He threw a major-league temper tantrum, regained his own power and broke through the barrier that Odin had placed across the North Sea. Then he went to Norway and found Odin's copy of the contract, which proved his charges, but didn't get back to Valhalla until the challenging hour was over. The lawyer and ad-exec claimed that their lives had been messed up by Dirk's client's death and by the challenge, so they claimed the contract was void and refused to let Odin back into the Woodshead. (My memory is especially fuzzy on this stretch). Dirk tried to negotiate with them, they tried to buy him out, and negotiations collapsed. When everyone got back to the real world, Odin was miserable because he couldn't go back to the hospital, so the writer arranged the deal with the will, and they took him back. Thor, with his powers back, undid all the damage that Odin's curse had done - he changed the kitten back to a table lamp, the coke machine back to Dirk's secretary, and the eagle back to the F-15, which immediately destroyed Dirk's house and killed the lawyer and ad- exec. The last bit is the vignette where Toe Rag and the demon, escaping from Thor's wrath at Valhalla, run across Dirk's old refrigerator. The fridge emits a powerful god of guilt (the incarnation of Dirk's guilt concerning the fridge and his cleaning lady), which eats Toe Rag and the demon. See makes perfect sense. Hmmmm. Maybe I'd better re-read the book. - Tom Fitzgerald fitz@wang.com Wang Labs ...!uunet!wang!fitz Lowell MA, USA 1-508-967-5278
Douglas Adams Bibliography
A bibliography of douglas adams's books and short stories, with book covers and links to related authors.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Douglas_Adams.htm

Extractions: Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. A major movie is currently in development hell and will almost certainly be released any decade now. Douglas Adams lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. He was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly on May 11th 2001.
Nezolds Site
Stephen King, douglas adams, Spiele, Rapid Wien, sowie Filmkritiken, Filmfehler und Humor.
http://home.pages.at/nezold
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Authors A D adams,douglas. Find Search results 1 to 12 out of 12, Tips about adams,douglas on the web. Tips about books on the web. Find
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