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Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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An edition of Don't Panic (1988)

Don't Panic

Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.85 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 17 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 17 Have read

'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies'
Douglas Adams

Don't Panic celebrates the life of an ape-descended human called Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea.

This is also the story of what that idea became: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- the original radio series which started it all, and the five book 'trilogy', the TV series, almost-film, computer game, towel and website that followed.

Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman also tells the whole story of Liff, the Universe of Dick Gently, and everything else Douglas ever worked on, including his posthumous collection The Salmon of Doubt. As Douglas himself said, it is 'certainly the most outstandingly brilliant book to have been written about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy since this morning.'

Completely updated, with a new foreword by Neil Gaiman

This description comes from the 2003 Titan Books edition.

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Titan Books, Brand: TITAN BOOKS LTD
Language
English
Pages
240

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English Science fiction, History and criticism, English Novelists, Biography, Authors, english, Authors, biography, Romanciers anglais, Biographies, Novelists, Ecologists

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May 1, 2005, Titan Books
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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2003, Titan Books, Brand: TITAN BOOKS LTD
Hardcover in English
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Don't panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy
1993, Titan Books
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Table of Contents

Foreword Page vii
Introduction Page ix
00. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe Page 001 01. DNA Page 003 02. Cambridge and other Recurrent Phenomena Page 009 03. The Wilderness Years Page 014 04. Gherkin-Swallowing, Walking Backwards and All That Page 019 05. When You Hitch Upon a Star Page 023 06. Radio, Radio Page 031 07. A Slightly Unreliable Producer Page 041 08. Have TARDIS, Will Travel Page 046 09. H2G2 Page 052 10. All the Galaxy's a Stage Page 061 11. "Childish, Pointless, Codswalloping Drivel..." Page 067 12. Level 42 Page 071 13. Of Mice, and Men, and Tired TV Producers Page 075 14. The Restaurant at the End of the Unverise Page 099 15. Invasion USA Page 103 16. Life, the Universe and Everything Page 109 17. Making Movies Page 117 18. Liff, and Other Places Page 123 19. SLATFAT Fish Page 129 20. Do You Know Where Your Towel Is? Page 144 21. Games with Computers Page 144 22. Letters to Douglas Adams Page 155 23. Dick Gently and Time for Tea Page 165 24. Saving the World at No Extra Charge Page 172 25. Douglas and Other Animals Page 177 26. Anything That Happens, Happens Page 183 27. Guides to the Guide Page 188 28. The Movies That Don't Move Page 192 29. The dot.com That Cannot Possibly Go Wrong Page 197 30. A Sort of Apres-Vie Page 203 Appendix I. Hitchhiker's--the Original Synopsis Page 208 Appendix II. The Variant Texts of Hitchhiker's: What Happens Where and Why Page 212 Appendix III. Who's Who in the Galaxy: Some Comments by Douglas Adams Page 218 Appendix IV. The Definitive 'How to Leave the Planet' Page 227 Appendix V. Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen: an Excerpt from the Film Treatment by Douglas Adams Page 231

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London, England
Genre
Biography.
Copyright Date
2003

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6051.D3352 Z66 2002

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Jill Furmanovsky, 1999 (www.rocketarchive.com)

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Hardcover
Pagination
ix, 240p.
Number of pages
240

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Open Library
OL3754590M
Internet Archive
dontpanicdouglas0000gaim
ISBN 10
1840235012
LCCN
2003447560
Library Thing
5743
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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818470

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