Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams | |
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Born | Douglas Noel Adams 11 March 1952 Cambridge, England |
Died | 11 May 2001 Montecito, California, US | (aged 49)
Resting place | Highgate Cemetery, London, England |
Occupation |
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Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Genre | Science fiction, comedy, satire |
Notable work | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Dirk Gently |
Notable awards | Inkpot Award (1983)[1] |
Spouse |
Jane Belson (m. 1991) |
Children | 1 |
Signature | |
Website | |
douglasadams |
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author,
Adams also wrote
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for
Early life
Adams was born in Cambridge 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.[4][5] The family moved a few months after his birth to the East End of London, where his sister, Susan, was born three years later.[6] His parents divorced in 1957; Douglas, Susan and their mother moved then to an RSPCA animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex, run by his maternal grandparents.[7] Each remarried, giving Adams four half-siblings. A great-grandfather was the playwright Benjamin Franklin Wedekind.[8]
Education
Adams attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood. At the age of nine, he passed the entrance exam for
Some of his earliest writing was published at the school, such as a report on its photography club in The Brentwoodian in 1962, or spoof reviews in the school magazine Broadsheet, edited by
On the strength of an essay on religious poetry that discussed the Beatles and William Blake, he was awarded an Exhibition in English at St John's College, Cambridge (where his father had likewise been a student),[13] going up in 1971. He wanted to join the Footlights, 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.[14] Despite doing very little work – he recalled having completed three essays in three years – he graduated in 1974 with a 2:2 in English literature.[15]
Career
Writing
After leaving university Adams moved back to London, determined to break into TV and radio as a writer. An edited version of the Footlights Revue appeared on
Adams had two brief appearances in the fourth series of Monty Python's Flying Circus. 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 Michael Palin narrates a sketch that introduces one person after another but never gets started.[citation needed] At the beginning of episode 44, "Mr. Neutron", Adams is dressed in a pepper-pot outfit and loads a missile onto a cart driven by Terry Jones, who is calling for scrap metal ("Any old iron...").[citation needed] The two episodes were broadcast in November 1974.[citation needed] Adams and Chapman also attempted non-Python projects, including Out of the Trees.[17]
At this point Adams's career stalled; his writing style was unsuited to the then-current style of radio and TV comedy.
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 Unpleasantness at Brodie's Close at the
Some of Adams's early radio work included sketches for The Burkiss Way in 1977 and The News Huddlines.[20] He also wrote, again with Chapman, the 20 February 1977 episode of Doctor on the Go, a sequel to the Doctor in the House television comedy series. After the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide became successful, Adams was made a BBC radio producer, working on Week Ending and a pantomime called Black Cinderella Two Goes East.[21] He left after six months to become the script editor for Doctor Who.
In 1979, Adams and
Work on Doctor Who
Adams sent the script for the HHGG pilot radio programme to the Doctor Who production office in 1978, and was commissioned to write The Pirate Planet. He had also previously attempted to submit a potential film script, called Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen, which later became his novel Life, the Universe and Everything (which in turn became the third Hitchhiker's Guide radio series). Adams then went on to serve as script editor on the show for its seventeenth season in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor:
- season 16)[23]
- City of Death (with producer Graham Williams, from an original storyline by writer David Fisher. It was transmitted under the pseudonym "David Agnew")[24]
- Shada (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 BBC America 19 July 2018)[25]
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.[26] Shada was later adapted as a novel by Gareth Roberts in 2012 and City of Death and The Pirate Planet by James Goss in 2015 and 2017 respectively.
Elements of Shada and City of Death were reused in Adams's later novel
In the Doctor Who 2012 Christmas episode "The Snowmen", writer Steven Moffat was inspired by a storyline that Adams pitched called The Doctor Retires.[27]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by Adams and radio producer Simon Brett to BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used in the series.
According to Adams, the idea for the title occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing at the stars. He was carrying a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe, and it occurred to him that "somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".[28]
Despite the original outline, Adams was said to make up the stories as he wrote. He turned to John Lloyd for help with the final two episodes of the first series. Lloyd contributed bits from an unpublished science fiction book of his own, called GiGax.[29] Very little of Lloyd's material survived in later adaptations of Hitchhiker's, 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.
BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio series weekly in the UK starting 8 March 1978, lasting until April.[30] The series was distributed in the United States by National Public Radio. Following the success of the first series, another episode was recorded and broadcast, which was commonly known as the Christmas Episode. A second series of five episodes was broadcast one per night, during the week of 21–25 January 1980.
While working on the radio series (and with simultaneous projects such as The Pirate Planet) 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 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was completed.[31] He was quoted as saying, "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."[32] Despite the difficulty with deadlines, Adams wrote five novels in the series, published in 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, and 1992.
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
In 1980, Adams began attempts to turn the first Hitchhiker's 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
Radio producer
Dirk Gently series
Between Adams's first trip to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine in 1985, and their series of travels that formed the basis for the radio series and non-fiction book Last Chance to See, Adams wrote two other novels with a new cast of characters. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 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".[37]
A sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, was published a year later. This was an entirely original work, Adams's first since So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. After the book tour, Adams set off on his round-the-world excursion which supplied him with the material for Last Chance to See.
The Salmon of Doubt was incomplete when published posthumously.
Music
Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of twenty-four left-handed guitars when he died (having received his first guitar in 1964). He also studied piano in the 1960s.[38] Pink Floyd and Procol Harum had important influence on Adams's work.
Pink Floyd
Adams's official biography shares its name with the song "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. The opening section of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was featured in a section of the third episode of the original 1978 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series (broadcast only, cut from commercial releases). Adams was friends with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour 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 "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse".[39] Adams chose the name for Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell, by picking the words from the lyrics to one of its tracks, "High Hopes".[39] Pink Floyd and the song "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" in particular, inspired Adams to create the rock band Disaster Area who appear in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, who planned to crash a space ship into a nearby star as a stunt during a concert.[40] Gilmour also performed at Adams's memorial service in 2001, and what would have been Adams's 60th birthday party in 2012.[41]
Computer games and projects
Douglas Adams created an
Adams was a founder-director and Chief Fantasist of
In 1990, Adams wrote and presented a television documentary programme Hyperland[44] which featured Tom Baker as a "software agent" (similar to the assistant pictured in Apple's Knowledge Navigator video of future concepts from 1987), and interviews with Ted Nelson, the co-inventor of hypertext and the person who coined the term. Adams was an early adopter and advocate of hypertext.
Personal beliefs and activism
Atheism and views on religion
Adams described himself as a "radical
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."[46]
The evolutionary biologist and atheist
Environmental activism
Adams was also an
Adams and Mark Carwardine contributed the 'Meeting a Gorilla' passage from Last Chance to See to the book The Great Ape Project.[50] This book, edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, launched a wider-scale project in 1993, which calls for the extension of moral equality to include all great apes, human and non-human.
In 1994, he participated in a climb of Mount Kilimanjaro while wearing a rhino suit for the British charity organisation Save the Rhino International. Puppeteer William Todd-Jones, 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 Tanzania. Adams was also an active supporter of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.
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.[51]
Technology and innovation
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 DEC Rainbow. Upon their return to England, Adams bought an Apricot, then a BBC Micro and a Tandy 1000.[52] In Last Chance to See, Adams mentions his Cambridge Z88, which he had taken to Zaire on a quest to find the northern white rhinoceros.[53]
Adams's posthumously published work, The Salmon of Doubt, features several articles by him on the subject of technology, including reprints of articles that originally ran in MacUser, and in The Independent on Sunday. In these, Adams claims that one of the first computers he ever saw was a Commodore PET, 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.[54]
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
Adams used email to correspond with
Personal life
Adams moved to Upper Street, Islington, in 1981[60] and to Duncan Terrace, a few minutes' walk away, in the late 1980s.[60]
In the early 1980s, Adams had an affair with novelist
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 Santa Barbara, California, where they lived until his death. Following the funeral, Jane Belson and Polly Adams returned to London.[62] Belson died on 7 September 2011 of cancer, aged 59.[63]
Death and legacy
Adams died of a
Two days before Adams died, the Minor Planet Center announced the naming of asteroid 18610 Arthurdent, named after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy protagonist.[67] In 2005, the asteroid 25924 Douglasadams was named in his memory.[68]
In May 2002,
Other events after Adams's death included a webcast production of Shada, allowing the complete story to be told, radio dramatisations of the final three books in the Hitchhiker's series, and the completion of the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 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.
A 12-part radio series based on the Dirk Gently novels was announced in 2007.[71]
BBC Radio 4 also commissioned a third Dirk Gently radio series based on the incomplete chapters of The Salmon of Doubt, and written by
On 25 May 2001, two weeks after Adams's death, his fans organised a tribute known as Towel Day, which has been observed every year since then.[74]
An Apple Macintosh SE/30 once owned by Adams can be seen on display at
In 2018, John Lloyd presented an hour-long episode of the BBC Radio Four documentary Archive on 4, discussing Adams' private papers, which are held at St John's College, Cambridge.[76] The episode is available online.[76]
Travessa Douglas Adams, a street at 27°35′21.8″S 48°39′44.0″W / 27.589389°S 48.662222°W in São José, Santa Catarina, Brazil is named in Adams's honour.[77]
In March 2021,
The annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lectures[79] began in 2003.
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Work | Category | Result | Reference |
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1979 | Hugo Award | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (shared with Geoffrey Perkins) | Best Dramatic Presentation | Nominated |
Bibliography
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dirk Gently
Year | Title | ISBN | Notes |
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1987 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | 0-671-69267-4 | |
1988 | The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | 0-671-74251-5 | |
2002 | The Salmon of Doubt | 0-330-32312-1 | Unfinished novel, posthumous publication
Includes short stories, essays, and interviews by Adams |
Short stories
Year | Title | Published In | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1975 | "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" | The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book | Co-written with Graham Chapman, based upon their sketch of the same name |
1986 | A Christmas Fairly Story | Co-written with Terry Jones | |
Supplement to The Meaning of Liff | Co-written with John Lloyd and Stephen Fry | ||
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Set in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | ||
1996 | Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (revised version) | The Wizards of Odd | |
2002 | The Salmon of Doubt |
Non-fiction
Year | Title | ISBN | Notes |
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1983 | The Meaning of Liff | 0-330-28121-6 | Co-written with John Lloyd |
1990 | The Deeper Meaning of Liff | Co-written with John Lloyd | |
Last Chance to See | 978-0-345-37198-0 | Co-written with Mark Carwardine |
Other works
Year | Title | Notes |
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1980 | A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI | Co-written with David A. Yallop
|
1985 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts | With a foreword by Geoffrey Perkins |
1986 | The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book | As editor with Peter Fincham. Also contributor, see above |
1997 | Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel | By Terry Jones, based on Adams' game Starship Titanic |
1999 | h2g2 | As creator.
Open source, online, comic encyclopaedia |
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Notes |
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2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Posthumous, co-written with Karey Kirkpatrick |
Television
Year | Title | Notes | Broadcaster |
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1974 | Monty Python's Flying Circus | "Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party": Patient Abuse sketch (1974) | BBC Two |
1976 | Out of the Trees | Pilot, co-written with Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna | BBC Two |
1977 | Doctor on the Go | "For Your Own Good" (1977) | ITV |
1978–1979,
1983 |
Doctor Who |
4 stories with 13 episodes
He was also script editor throughout season 17
|
BBC One |
1979 | Doctor Snuggles | 2 episodes; "The Great Disappearing Mystery" and "The Remarkable Fidgety River" | ITV |
1979 | Not the Nine O'Clock News | Unknown episodes | BBC Two |
1981 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Also creator, adapted from his radio series and novel of the same name | BBC Two |
1990 | Hyperland | Documentary | BBC Two |
2018 | Doctor Who: The Lost Episode | Posthumous release, adapted from the unaired "Shada" episode[80] | BBC America |
Radio
Year | Title | Notes |
---|---|---|
1978–1984 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Referred to as The Primary and Secondary Phases of the series. Subsequent episodes were produced following Adams' death |
2000 | The Internet: The Last Battleground of the 20th century | |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future |
Video games
Year | Title |
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1984 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
1987 | Bureaucracy |
1998 | Starship Titanic |
See also
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- ISSN 0736-6884
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Further reading
Articles
- Herbert, R. (1980). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Book Review). Library Journal, 105(16), 1982.
- Adams, J., & Brown, R. (1981). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Book Review). School Library Journal, 27(5), 74.
- Nickerson, S. L. (1982). The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book). Library Journal, 107(4), 476.
- Nickerson, S. L. (1982). Life, the Universe, and Everything (Book). Library Journal, 107(18), 2007.
- Morner, C. (1982). The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book Review). School Library Journal, 28(8), 87.
- Morner, C. (1983). Life, the Universe and Everything (Book Review). School Library Journal, 29(6), 93.
- Shorb, B. (1985). So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Book). School Library Journal, 31(6), 90.
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Book). (1989). Atlantic (02769077), 263(4), 99.
- Hoffert, B., & Quinn, J. (1990). Last Chance To See (Book). Library Journal, 115(16), 77.
- Reed, S. S., & Cook, I. I. (1991). Dances with Kakapos. People, 35(19), 79.
- Last Chance to See (Book). (1991). Science News, 139(8), 126.
- Field, M. M., & Steinberg, S. S. (1991). Douglas Adams. Publishers Weekly, 238(6), 62.
- Dieter, W. (1991). Last Chance to See (Book). Smithsonian, 22(3), 140.
- Dykhuis, R. (1991). Last Chance To See (Book). Library Journal, 116(1), 140.
- Beatty, J. (1991). Good Show (Book). Atlantic (02769077), 267(3), 131.
- A guide to the future. (1992). Maclean's, 106(44), 51.
- Zinsser, J. (1993). Audio reviews: Fiction. Publishers Weekly, 240(9), 24.
- Taylor, B., & Annichiarico, M. (1993). Audio reviews. Library Journal, 118(2), 132.
- Good reads. (1995). NetGuide, 2(4), 109.
- Stone, B. (1998). The unsinkable starship. Newsweek, 131(15), 78.
- Gaslin, G. (2001). Galaxy Quest. Entertainment Weekly, (599), 79.
- So long, and thanks for all the fish. (2001). Economist, 359(8222), 79.
- Geier, T., & Raftery, B. M. (2001). Legacy. Entertainment Weekly, (597), 11.
- Passages. (2001). Maclean's, 114(21), 13.
- Don't panic! Douglas Adams to keynote Embedded show. (2001). Embedded Systems Programming, 14(3), 10.
- Ehrenman, G. (2001). World Wide Weird. InternetWeek, (862), 15.
- Zaleski, J. (2002). The Salmon of Doubt (Book). Publishers Weekly, 249(15), 43.
- Mort, J. (2002). The Salmon of Doubt (Book). Booklist, 98(16), 1386.
- Lewis, D. L. (2002). Last Time Round The Galaxy. Quadrant Magazine, 46(9), 84.
- Burns, A. (2002). The Salmon of Doubt (Book). Library Journal, 127(15), 111.
- Burns, A., & Rhodes, B. (2002). The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book). Library Journal, 127(19), 118.
- Kaveney, R. (2002). A cheerful whale. TLS, (5173), 23.
- Pearl, N., & Welch, R. (2003). The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Book). Library Journal, 128(11), 124.
- Preying on composite materials. (2003). R&D Magazine, 45(6), 44.
- Webb, N. (2003). The Berkeley Hotel hostage. Bookseller, (5069), 25.
- The author who toured the universe. (2003). Bookseller, (5060), 35.
- Osmond, A. (2005). Only human. Sight & Sound, 15(5), 12–15.
- Culture vulture. (2005). Times Educational Supplement, (4640), 19.
- Maughan, S. (2005). Audio Bestsellers/Fiction. Publishers Weekly, 252(30), 17.
- Hitchhiker At The Science Museum. (2005). In Britain, 14(10), 9.
- Rea, A. (2005). The Adams asteroids. New Scientist, 185(2488), 31.
- Most Improbable Adventure. (2005). Popular Mechanics, 182(5), 32.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase. (2005). Publishers Weekly, 252(14), 21.
- Bartelt, K. R. (2005). Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams. Library Journal, 130(4), 86.
- Larsen, D. (2005). I was a teenage android. New Zealand Listener, 198(3390), 37–38.
- Tanner, J. C. (2005). Simplicity: it's hard. Telecom Asia, 16(6), 6.
- Nielsen Bookscan Charts. (2005). Bookseller, (5175), 18–21.
- Buena Vista launches regional site to push Hitchhiker's movie. (2005). New Media Age, 9.
- Shynola bring Beckland to life. (2005). Creative Review, 25(3), 24–26.
- Carwardine, M. (15 September 2007). The baiji: So long and thanks for all the fish. New Scientist. pp. 50–53.
- Czarniawska, B. (2008). Accounting and gender across times and places: An excursion into fiction. Accounting, Organizations & Society, 33(1), 33–47.
- Pope, M. (2008). Life, the Universe, Religion and Science. Issues, (82), 31–34.
- Bearne, S. (2008). BBC builds site to trail Last Chance To See TV series. New Media Age, 08.
- Arrow to reissue Adams. (2008). Bookseller, (5352), 14.
- Page, B. (2008). Colfer is new Hitchhiker. Bookseller, (5350), 7.
- I've got a perfect puzzle for you. (2009). Bookseller, (5404), 42.
- Mostly Harmless.... (2009). Bookseller, (5374), 46.
- Penguin and PanMac hitch a ride together. (2009). Bookseller, (5373), 6.
- Adams, Douglas. Britannica Biographies [serial online]. October 2010;:1
- Douglas (Noël) Adams (1952–2001). Hutchinson's Biography Database [serial online]. July 2011;:1
- My life in books. (2011). Times Educational Supplement, (4940), 27.
Other
- Adams's official web site at the The Digital Village
- Douglas Adams at TED
- Douglas Adams speech at Digital Biota 2 (1998) Archived 2 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine (The audio of the speech) Archived 29 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- Guardian Books "Author Page", with profile and links to further articles.
- Douglas Adams & his Computer article about his Mac IIfx
- BBC2 Omnibus tribute to Adams, presented by Kirsty Wark, 4 August 2001
- Mueller, Rick and Greengrass, Joel (2002). Life, The Universe and Douglas Adams, documentary.
- Simpson, M.J. (2001). The Pocket Essential Hitchhiker's Guide. ISBN 1-904048-46-3
- Special edition of BBC Bookclub featuring Douglas Adams, first broadcast 2 January 2000 on BBC Radio 4
- Bevan, William Ham (2019). "A Hitchhiker's Guide : It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes". CAM : Cambridge Alumni Magazine. Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Official website
- Douglas Adams at IMDb
- Douglas Adams at British Comedy Guide
- Interview with Douglas Adams, A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour TV Series, Episode No. 33 (1992)