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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams (No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller)

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By (author): Douglas Adams

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglass long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time.

Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with all the information in the world living at our fingertips; sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books; journal entries from his forays into home computing it is a matter of legend that Douglas bought the very first Mac in the UK; musings on how the internet would disrupt the CD-Rom industry, among others.

42 also features archival material charting Douglass school days through Cambridge, Footlights, collaborations with Graham Chapman, and early scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, Hitchhikers and Dirk Gently. Alongside details of his most celebrated works are projects that never came to fruition, including the pilot for radio programme Theyll Never Play That on the Radio and a space-inspired theme park ride.

Douglass personal papers prove that the greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that collide in our own imagination, and offer a captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth centurys greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers.

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  • Dimensions: 216 x 303mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Unbound
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781800182684

About Douglas Adams

After the Hitchhikers Guide radio series aired in 1978 young art student Kevin Jon Davies sought out its little-known author Douglas Adams to record an early fanzine interview. He went on to direct The Making of Hitchhiker the 1993 documentary for BBC Video and Adams invited him to art-direct The Illustrated Hitchhiker a large-format book with pioneering digital composites. Since then he has contributed to a number of Adams-related projects including The Hexagonal Phase (2018) the final radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

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