Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
In addition to Hitchhiker, he is the author of the Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.
He had almost a Wodehousian style and some of his phrases and jokes entered our language. He changed the way people spoke
- Stephen Fry,
There has never been another writer remotely like Douglas Adams. He discovered a completely new genre – scientific wit – and having discovered it he raised it to dizzying heights
- Tony Robinson,
Quite good I suppose, if you like brilliantly entertaining books written with a touch of imaginative genius
- Griff Rhys Jones,
Very occasionally a book comes along that changes the way you laugh and what you laugh about
- Richard Dawkins,
One of the world’s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices
Independent on Sunday
Sheer delight
The Times
Magical . . . read this book
Sunday Express
Celebrate 42 years of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with this anniversary edition featuring the original radio scripts that started it all.
March 1978 saw the first ever transmission of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4, launching a cult phenomenon. March 2020 marks the 42nd anniversary of that groundbreaking debut. Pan Macmillan commemorates the occasion by reissuing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, featuring an introduction by Simon Jones.
This collection faithfully reproduces the text as first published in 1985, with all twelve original radio scripts presented exactly as they were broadcast. Amendments and additions made during recordings are included, as well as the previously 'lost' script from the 25th anniversary, 'Sheila's Ear', and original notes by producer Geoffrey Perkins and Douglas Adams himself.
These scripts are essential reading for both longtime fans and the next generation just discovering the brilliance of Douglas Adams. A must-have for collectors, this special anniversary edition release coincides with reissued novels in the Hitchhiker's series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
In addition to Hitchhiker, he is the author of the Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.