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Guide to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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This is a collection of anecdotes and interviews peppered throughout with clips from the radio show. Listen how the idea first came about and what it was like to be part of the production. This also includes an interview with Douglas Adams, the indispensable guide to the 'guide'.

null pages, Audio Cassette

First published July 5,1999

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null pages, Audio Cassette
Published
July 5, 1999 by
ISBN
9780563552369
ASIN
0563552360
Language
English

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.

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Saichiz
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I am the 4814th reviewer of this classic book. This makes me rather inconsequential, I'm OK with that. At a younger age I could quote chapter and verse from this book and did many times to help me get through the years. Now as an old man I am only waiting for the immortal creature with the expensive complexion to show up and insult me, I understand that since my name starts with a "W" it may be a while.
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Have saw the serial and the movies and read the books individually and as omnibus and different sets, hardback, still in my library, says a lot. Date wrong, just saw it to review. also listened to radio ones of course
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love love love this book. First tine I've listened to the audio version. Stephen Fry is perfect!!!!
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