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9780330508117 208 pages Synopsis Go on a galactic adventure with the last human on Earth, his alien best friend, and a depressed android. Introducing younger readers to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this YA edition of the funny sci-fi classic includes an introduction from Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer. One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. It's the final straw for Arthur Dent, who has already had his house bulldozed that morning. But for Arthur, that is only the beginning . . . In the seconds before global obliteration, Arthur is plucked from the planet by his friend Ford Prefect – and together the pair venture out across the galaxy on the craziest, strangest road trip of all time! Totally hilarious, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show, TV show, stage play, comic book and film, and is and a work of utter comic genius from Douglas Adams. Related articles
What Was He Like, He was tall, very tall. He had an air of cheerful diffidence. He combined a razor-sharp intellect and understanding of what he was doing with the puzzled look of someone who had backed into a profession that surprised him in a world that perplexed him. And he gave the impression that, all in all, he was rather enjoying it. He was a genius, of course. It’s a word that gets tossed around a lot these days, and it’s used to mean pretty much anything. But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw. Also, once you’d seen it his way you could never go back. Douglas Noel Adams was born in 1952 in Cambridge, England (shortly before the announcement of an even more influential DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid). He was a self-described “strange child” who did not learn to speak until he was four. He wanted to be a nuclear physicist (“I never made it because my
arithmetic was so bad”), then went to Cambridge to study English, with ambitions that involved becoming part of the tradition of British writer/performers (of which the members of Monty Python’s When he was eighteen, drunk in a field in Innsbruck, hitchhiking across He left Cambridge in 1975 and went to London where his many writ-ing and performing projects tended, in the main, not to happen. He worked with former Python Graham Chapman writing scripts and sketches for abortive projects (among them a show for Ringo Starr which contained the germ of Starship Titanic) and with writer-producer John Lloyd He liked science fiction, although he was never a fan. He supported himself through this period with a variety of odd jobs: he was, for example, In 1977 BBC radio producer (and well-known
mystery author) Simon But, Douglas soon realized, if you are going to destroy the Earth, you need someone to whom it matters. Someone like a reporter for, yes,
the For those people listening to BBC Radio 4 in 1978 the show came as a revelation. It was funny–genuinely witty, surreal, and smart. The series was produced by Geoffrey Perkins, and the last two episodes of the first series were co-written with John Lloyd. (I was a kid who discovered the series–accidentally, as most listeners did–with the second episode. I sat in the car in the driveway, getting cold, listening to Vogon poetry, and then the ideal radio line “Ford, By now, Douglas had a real job. He was the script editor for the long-running Pan Books approached him
about doing a book based on the radio series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy sequence used the tropes of science fiction to talk about the things that concerned Douglas, the world he observed, his thoughts on Life, the Universe, and Everything. As we moved into a world where people really did think that digital watches were a pretty neat thing, the landscape had become science fiction
and I read a lengthy newspaper article recently demonstrating that Hitchhiker’s Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the
process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He died in May 2001–too young. His death surprised us all, and left a huge, Douglas Adams—sized hole in the world. We had lost both
the man He left behind a number of novels, as often-imitated as they are, ultimately, And he made it look so easy. –Neil Gaiman, (Long before
Neil Gaiman was the bestselling author of novels like American Gods and What is the point of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?'Hitchhiker,' a Guide to Douglas Adams
Bundell said the story is a satire on what happens around the world and what we're doing to our planet and is still relevant today. In the story, Vogons are an alien race destroying planets to make way for construction of a new hyperspace bypass.
Does Douglas Adams appear in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?Douglas Adams appears in several places in the series. He appears in the pub in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Episode #1.1 (1981), in the intro to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Episode #1.2 (1981), in various animated sequences, at the restaurant, and at the committee meeting on prehistoric Earth.
What is the meaning of 42 in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?The number 42 from Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' represents all meaning ('the meaning of life, the universe, and everything') as determined by the fictional supercomputer Deep Thought. The number 42 is not a particularly significant number in base 13.
What age is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy suitable for?Find This Book In. |
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