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Douglas Adams

British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)

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Douglas Adams was a British science fiction writer and humorist best known for creating "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a comedic series that became a beloved classic across multiple formats including radio, television, and books. His clever, absurdist humor and imaginative storytelling made him one of the most influential and widely read science fiction authors of the late 20th century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 11 March 1952 Cambridge UK
Died: 11 May 2001 Santa Barbara US
Works: 82

Top works

O Salmão da Dúvida
Sefinat he-ḥalal Ṭiṭaniḳ
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Iras celestiales

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1952-03-11
Active to: 2001-05-11

audio dramaaudiobookauthorbritishcomedyenglish

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 35,061
Total plays: 1,606,544

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,410x
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 58,027x
Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,891x
Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,829x
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,329x

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Quotes

“When you are a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up. At the moment we can't afford to go to other planets. We don't have the ships to take us there. There may be other people out there (I don't have any opinions about Life Out There, I just don't know) but it's nice to think that one could, even here and now, be whisked away just by hitchhiking.”
“You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”
“Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.”
“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.”
“I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.”
“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.”

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Official website: douglasadams.com
Image: Douglas adams portrait cropped.jpg
Height: 1.96

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date of birth: 1952-03-11
date of death: 2001-05-11
Commons category: Douglas Adams
Erdős number: 10
pseudonym: David Agnew
short name: Douglas Adams
name in native language: Douglas Adams
birth name: Douglas Noël Adams
start of work period: 1974-00-00
described at URL: baike.sogou.com/v815123.htm

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Article

Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He was best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1978 radio comedy series which he adapted into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 14 million copies in his lifetime. He also adapted it into a 1981 television series, a 1984 video game and a 2005 feature film.

Adams wrote the novels 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 three serials for the television series Doctor Who including the unaired serial Shada and City of Death (1979) which he co-wrote with producer Graham Williams, and served as script editor for its 17th 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 chapters of his final unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.