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The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe 1952-2001 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." BirthplaceCambridge, England EducationBrentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge (English literature) Other jobsAfter graduation, Adams went to London and wrote a number of tongue-in-cheek episodes for Dr Who. Two years later, flat broke, he became a bodyguard for Arabian royalty. His job, he later explained, was to stand outside the door, bow occasionally, and run if anyone showed up with a hand grenade. Did you know?On May 10 2001, the day before Adams died from a heart attack during a gym workout, the International Astronomical Union named Asteroid 18610, Arthurdent. Critical verdictNotoriously slack at meeting deadlines - "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by" - and suffering for years from writers' block, Adams's vision, aptly enough, came one drunken night while looking up at the stars and thinking about the universe. Aiming to combine the fun of science fiction with a satire on society, he effectively invented a new genre: gently clever comedy SF. As well as the Hitchhiker books (1978 to 1992), he wrote two quantum-mechanical romps around his holistic private detective Dirk Gently, plus a dictionary of new words, The Meaning of Liff, now updated as The Deeper Meaning of Liff, with John Lloyd. He teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine in 1990 for Last Chance to See, an account of their worldwide search for endangered animals and the book of which he was most proud. Fascinated by the internet, he brought the Hitchhiker's Guide into reality with h2g2.com, now hosted by the BBC, and in 1998 became 'chief fantasist' of The Digital Village, his digital media and internet company. His posthumous release, The Salmon of Doubt, includes an unfinished Dirk Gently novel. Recommended worksThe Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy and Restaurant at the End of the Universe are the best of the five-strong series, which began to falter around book three; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency conveys Adams's serious passions for science and music. InfluencesIt was "fairly obvious", said Adams, that he admired Kurt Vonnegut. Comic heroes included PG Wodehouse and Lewis Carroll, while scientists Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker were an influence in later life. Now read on The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll AdaptationsThe TV series of HHGTTG, broadcast five times since 1980, was Adams's least favourite adaptation; it stands out for its uncannily internet-like guidebook sequences (purists must profess to prefer the original radio series). After languishing for a decade in what Adams described as "production hell". The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was finally made in 2005, and met with mixed reviews, although this could have been down to the sense of anticlimax. The general consensus was summarised best by Peter Bradshaw when he said that the film did not do justice to the open-ended inventiveness of the original. Recommended biographyNeil Gaiman's Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy discusses his life and work up to 1992 and features out-takes from the books. Useful links and work onlineWork online Background This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Many races believe that it was created by some sort of God, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief, are small blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel. However, the Great Green Arkleseizure Theory is not widely accepted outside Viltvodle VI and so, the Universe being the puzzling place it is, other explanations are constantly being sought. What is the answer to the universe according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?The number 42 is especially significant to fans of science fiction novelist Douglas Adams' “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” because that number is the answer given by a supercomputer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.” Booker also wanted to know the answer to 42.
What is the secret of the universe Hitchhiker's Guide?The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything," calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is.
What is the meaning of 42 in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?The number 42 from Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' represents all meaning ('the meaning of life, the universe, and everything') as determined by the fictional supercomputer Deep Thought. The number 42 is not a particularly significant number in base 13.
What is the opening line to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. First line: “Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.” Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.
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