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Douglas Adams

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British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)

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Douglas Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was a British male author and artist associated with the United Kingdom. His career began in 1974, and he wrote under the pseudonym David Agnew. Adams is known for works such as *The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy*, *O Salmão da Dúvida*, *Sefinat he-ḥalal Ṭiṭaniḳ*, and *Iras celestiales*. He also contributed to audio drama, audiobooks, and comedy genres.

Adams was born in Cambridge, UK, and died in Santa Barbara, US. He had a height of 1.96 and an Erdős number of 10. His works have been referenced by 919 other encyclopedia articles. He has an official website at douglasadams.com. Descriptions of him are available at baike.sogou.com. He is similar to artists such as Terry Pratchett, Stephen Fry, Isaac Asimov, Philip Pullman, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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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
Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
35,061
Total plays
1,606,544

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Audiobookcomedysci-fispoken wordRadio

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Terry PratchettStephen FryIsaac AsimovPhilip PullmanSir Arthur Conan Doyle

Douglas Noël Adams (11th March 1952–11th May 2001) was an English radio comic dramatist and novelist, most notably of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime), as well as a television series, a stage show, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams's death. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Douglas+Adams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 76,010x

  2. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

    · 2009 · cited 58,761x

  3. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

    · 2011 · cited 56,565x

  4. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

    · 2003 · cited 52,690x

  5. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

    · 2010 · cited 23,585x

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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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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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