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Douglas Adams


Born
in Cambridge, England, The United Kingdom
March 11, 1952

Died
May 11, 2001

Website

Genre
Science Fiction, Mystery, Humor

Influences
Monty Python, Kurt Vonnegut, P. G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Jane Au ...more


Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts; the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA".

In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote or co-wrote ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 3,396,123 ratings · 86,487 reviews · 183 distinct works • Similar authors
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s G...
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The Restaurant at the End o...
4.21 avg rating — 287,963 ratings — published 1980 — 255 editions
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Life, the Universe and Ever...
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So Long, and Thanks for All...
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Dete...
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Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker...
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of t...
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
tags: life, navigation
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
tags: humor, scifi
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What book would you like to read for our March 2023 Group Read? The theme is Universe.

 
  42 votes 30.7%

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
  26 votes 19.0%

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Fantasy, Middle Grade
 
  15 votes 10.9%

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Science Fiction, Dystopia
 
  15 votes 10.9%

 
  9 votes 6.6%

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
Science Fiction, Young Adult
 
  8 votes 5.8%

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Science Fiction, Classic
 
  8 votes 5.8%

Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult
 
  7 votes 5.1%

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Nonfiction , Space, Biography
 
  5 votes 3.6%

Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
Science Fiction
 
  2 votes 1.5%

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