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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote 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), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams became known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and also as a lover of fast cars, cameras, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh. He was a staunch atheist, famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate the fallacy of the fine-tuned Universe argument for God. Biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion (2006) to Adams, writing on his death that "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender."
Adams was born on 11 March 1952 to Janet (née Donovan) and Christopher Douglas Adams in Cambridge, England. The following year Watson and Crick famously first modelled DNA at Cambridge University, leading Adams to later quip he was DNA in Cambridge months earlier. The family moved to East London a few months after his birth where his sister, Susan, was born three years later. His parents divorced in 1957; Douglas, Susan, and their mother moved to an RSPCA animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex, run by his maternal grandparents.
Adams's father married Mary Judith Stewart (born Judith Robertson) in July 1960, a marriage that produced a half-sister, Heather; his mother's 1964 remarriage to veterinarian Ron Thrift provided two more half-siblings, Jane and James Thrift.
After leaving university Adams moved back to London, determined to break into TV and radio as a writer. An edited version of the Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 television in 1974. A version of the Revue performed live in London's West End led to Adams being discovered by Monty Python's Graham Chapman. The two formed a brief writing partnership, earning Adams a writing credit in episode 45 of Monty Python for a sketch called "Patient Abuse". He is one of only two people outside the original Python members to get a writing credit (the other being Neil Innes). The sketch plays on the idea of mind-boggling paper work in an emergency, a joke later incorporated into the Vogons' obsession with paperwork. Adams also contributed to a sketch on the album for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
During this time Adams continued to write and submit sketches, though few were accepted. In 1976 his career had a brief improvement when he wrote and performed, to good review, Unpleasantness at Brodie's Close at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. But by Christmas work had dried up again, and a depressed Adams moved to live with his mother. The lack of writing work hit him hard and a low confidence would become a feature of Adams's life; "I have terrible periods of lack of confidence [..] I briefly did therapy, but after a while I realised it was like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather – you just have to get on with it".
Some of Adams's early radio work included sketches for The Burkiss Way in 1977 and The News Huddlines. He also wrote, again with Graham Chapman, the 20 February 1977 episode of Doctor on the Go, a sequel to the Doctor in the House television comedy series. After the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide became successful, Adams was made a BBC radio producer, working on Week Ending and a pantomime called Black Cinderella Two Goes East. He left the position after six months to become the script editor for Doctor Who.
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (read by Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe (read by Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - Life, The Unvierse And Everything (read by Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish (read by Martin Freeman)
Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless (read by Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - And Another Thing (read by Simon Jones)
Dirk Gently series
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (read by Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul (read by Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - The Salmon Of Doubt (read by Simon Jones, Christopher Cerf,Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry)
Hitchhiker's Guide: Radio Play series
Douglas Adams - The Primary Phase (BBC)
Douglas Adams - The Secondary Phase (BBC)
Douglas Adams - The Tertiary Phase (BBC)
Douglas Adams - The Quandary Phase (BBC)
Douglas Adams - The Quintessential Phase (BBC)
Other
Douglas Adams - Last Chance To See (read by Douglas Adams)
Douglas Adams - Starship Titanic (read by Terry Jones)
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
http://rapidgator.net/file/d69557f656912c537a1b0f02ae2af2df/Hitchhikers_Guide_To_The_Galaxy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e8d7c3ed4901e82ee4024209d6df92de/The_Restaurant_At_The_End_Of_The_Universe.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b7b1a9d157af5ad2f13d67588dbffd73/Life_The_Unvierse_And_Everything.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/413ec5f113e6f3fc983978925ccdfeda/So_Long_And_Thanks_For_All_The_Fish.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6ba49bcf73ffd0da3260551173a1bbc8/Mostly_Harmless.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a8740f0ad5c116178a42ff3e931d083b/And_Another_Thing.rar.html
Dirk Gently series
http://rapidgator.net/file/6fc98b39a5f8ff0cd6518aae39bb7e43/Dirk_Gentlys_Holistic_Detective_Agency.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c573a3c6f0e21fafa7118e14637d3189/The_Long_Dark_Tea_Time_Of_The_Soul.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6fd82ed5d927a62fe944fbed641bea3c/The_Salmon_Of_Doubt.rar.html
Hitchhiker's Guide: Radio Play series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8f43c5eea7d4c801b5823c25ef593b63/The_Primary_Phase.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6404a3186353af260d0e5284a3330b9c/The_Secondary_Phase.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/37b43d3a35f65c3e2285aea06167cbaf/The_Tertiary_Phase.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bccb2f83af1447b5b271e68ad97f2aed/The_Quandary_Phase.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/879260b37555a35b5bd1951d6d23d8ec/The_Quintessential_Phase.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/ee6812498a3fa64675d49edaf2869ca7/Last_Chance_To_See.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/eeef2c5f7bb91e59cd27b18e6a7daa74/Starship_Titanic.rar.html |
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