Knowra Douglas Adams Douglas Adams Douglas Adams (1952–2001) was an English author and screenwriter best known for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a comic science-fiction series spanning radio, books, television, and film.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy : A comic science-fiction story about Arthur Dent’s travels through a bizarre and indifferent universe. Adams’s signature work began as a BBC radio series and became a cross-media franchise.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) : A BBC radio comedy science-fiction series created by Douglas Adams and first broadcast in 1978. The radio format was the series’ original form, before its books and other adaptations.
Mark Carwardine : A British zoologist, conservationist, and wildlife broadcaster. Carwardine accompanied Adams on the endangered-species journeys recorded in Last Chance to See.
42 (answer) : The number given as the answer to life, the universe, and everything in Adams’s fiction. Its comic role became one of the most recognizable quotations associated with Adams.
Absurdism : A philosophical outlook centered on the conflict between human searches for meaning and an indifferent universe. Adams’s cosmic comedy repeatedly places human plans against an uncaring universe.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe : The second novel in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. Its cosmic absurdity extends the characters and themes Adams introduced in the first novel.
BBC Radio 4 : A British public-service radio station that broadcasts speech, drama, comedy, and news. Radio 4 commissioned and first broadcast Adams’s Hitchhiker’s series.
Richard Dawkins : A British evolutionary biologist and author known for writing about evolution and science. Dawkins and Adams were friends; Dawkins later described Adams’s enthusiasm for science and reason.
Babel fish : A fictional creature that enables instantaneous understanding between languages in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams’s translation device inspired the name of the Babel Fish online translation service.
Satire : A form of expression that uses humor, irony, or exaggeration to expose folly and vice. His jokes target bureaucracy, authority, consumerism, and misplaced certainty.
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