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The Many Works Of
Douglas Adams
"I love deadlines. I love the little wooshing noise they make as they go by"
(DNA)
New! Hitchhiker Fact Files
Rise to fame - a very short biography
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge on March 11th, 1952, his mother a nurse, his father a postgraduate theology student. Even Douglas himself has been known to make the obvious joke about Cambridge, 1952, and his initials being DNA. A solitary child, he attended Brentwood School in Essex, where he studied untill 1970, when he went to Cambridge, to join Footlights. But he was never happy with them, or were they with him. He started a small theater group named Adams-Smith-Adams(Will Adams, Martin Smith, and Douglas Adams). After graduating from Cambridge, he worked on little projects and productions, none of which were incredibly sucessfull. Then, while trying to make his pet project of a humourous science fiction story, he came to work on a project that was to be called The Ends of the Earth, which would have consisted of 6 shows, each ending with the Earth being destroyed for a different reason. But when he worked on the storyline, he realised he needed someone from another planet to tell the character what was going on. Then he remembered a title he had thought up while lying drunk in a feild in 1971 in Innsbruck - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The more he thought about this the more it sounded like a promising idea...
Books (in no particular order...)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(1979)
- The Restaurnt at the End of the Universe(1980)
- Life, the Universe, and Everything(1982)
- So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish(1984)
- Mostly Harmless(1992)
- Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts(1985)
- The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(1994)
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency(1987)
- The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul(1988)
- Last Chance to See*(1990)
- The Meaning of Liff**(1983)
- The Deeper Meaning of Liff**(1990)
*With Mark Carwardine
**With John Lloyd
Computer Games
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(1984)
- Buraucracy
- Starship Titanic(1998)
Doctor Who Episodes
- The Pirate Planet (Broadcast September 1978)
- City of Death (Broadcast September 1979)
- Shada (Never Aired)
Other Random Asssorted Work
- Him and John Lloyd wrote 2 episodes for the British children's telivision show, Dr Snuggles
- Contributions to 3 Not The Nine O' Clock News spin-off books, Not! The Nine O' Clock News(1980), Not 1982(1981), and Not 1983(1982)
- Hyperland, the hour long one-time BBC show on information technology
- Contributions to Week-Ending and The Burkiss Way
- The Utterly, Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (Edited by DNA, includes 3 short stories also by him.)(1986)
- Script Contribution to The Utterly, Utterly Amusing and Pretty Damn Definitive Comic Relief Revue Book(1989)
- A Chapter in Hockney's Alphabet(1991)
- Chapter in Animal Passions(1994)
- Interview in Wordsmiths of Wonder(1993)
- Chapter in The Great Ape Project: Equality beyond Humanity(1994)
- Material in A Liar's Autobiography by Graham Chapman(1980)
- The Last Chance to See radio show
- Created and Produced Black Cinderella II Goes East on Radio 4 (1978)
- Short story in The Wizzards of Odd(1996)
- Interview in Monty Python Speaks!(1999)
- Script in OJRIL: Old Jokes and Really Irrelevant Links(1999)
Douglas Adams related works
- Starship Titanic - The Novel (Written by Terry Jones, Basic Idea by Douglas Adams)(1998)
- Starship Titanic: the Official Strategy Guide (By Neil Richards)(1998)
- Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion (By Neil Gaiman)(1988)
- Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (By Neil Gaiman, revised edition)(1993)
- Pocket Essential Hitchhiker's Guide (By M.J. Simpson)(2001)
