![]() ![]() A posthumous collection of essays and other material, including an incomplete novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. ![]() Adams also originated the idea for the computer game Starship Titanic, which was produced by a company that Adams co-founded, and adapted into a novel by Terry Jones. His other written works include the Dirk Gently novels, and he co-wrote two Liff books and Last Chance to See, itself based on a radio series. In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote or co-wrote three stories of the science fiction television series Doctor Who and served as Script Editor during the seventeenth season. He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA". The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Beautifully produced, must-have collectors edition.ĭouglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. 1 of the Radio Scripts was a great success and still backlists. $60 million motion picture from Walt Disney in spring 2005 will guarantee that Hitchhikers is very much in the public eye. Publication of the scriptbook ties-in with the series climax.Douglas Adams is a perennial classic, with whom generation after generation falls in loveexemplified when Hitchhikers was voted Englands fourth favourite book in the BBCs Big Read. The shows will be broadcast in two series in September 2004 and spring 2005. Also invloved are famous names such as Joanna Lumley, Richard Griffiths, Chris Langham, Fred Trueman and Henry Blofeld. The late Peter Joness great friend, William Franklyn, replaces him as The Voice of the Book. The original Hitchhikers radio cast is returning Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Stephen Moore as Marvin The Paranoid Android. This dramatisation of the last three books, Life, The Universe and Everything So Long and Thanks For All the Fish and Mostly Harmless, features Douglas Adams himself, thanks to the wonders of digital technology, and includes new material written by him specially for the radio sequels. Twenty-five years after the original radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero Arthur Dent are being brought to life in their original medium. ![]()
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