Douglas Adams FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about Douglas Adams.
This FAQ about Douglas Adams was compiled and written by Nathan Hughes nhughes@umich.edu with numerous contributions by others.
This FAQ is possible only through the support of the DNA fans around the world, mostly but not limited to the readers of alt.fan.douglas-adams. Without their help, this document would be pretty skimpy indeed. I wish I could maintain the names and originators of all the information found in this document, but that is nearly impossible. So accept this global thanks to all the contributors. And special thanks to Evan Macbeth (Paradox !-) ) for keeping me on track and up to date on EVERYTHING. As usual, any info you think pertinant, interesting, enjoyable, etc. that you think deserves a spot in this FAQ, send along to nhughes@umich.edu. I love reading the mail, even if I can't include your particular piece.
Special Thanks go to Nathan Torkington for his origination of the FAQ, and his creation of much of the original text and structure for this FAQ.
1 Biographical Information (Douglas Adams)- In this section you will find information on Douglas Adams. ...
- 2 Douglas Adams and Computers
- DNA definitely has a close association with computers. Here you ...
- 2.1 Macintoshes (Douglas Adams and Computers)
- Douglas Adams likes Macintoshes, and at one stage lived with one ...
- 2.2 Computer Games (Douglas Adams and Computers)
- With Infocom's Steve Meretzky (who no longer works for Infocom ...
- 2.4 His e-mail Address(es) (Douglas Adams)
- Owing to his globe-trotting, and his relatively late involvement ...
- 3 Merchandising (Douglas Adams)
- There are lots of merchandised products around. Here you will ...
- 3.1 Audio Tapes & CDs (Douglas Adams)
- In the U.K., the place to start looking is any record or book shop!...
- 3.2 Albums (Douglas Adams)
- In the autumn of 1979, a double record album was released, which was ...
- 3.4 Videos (Douglas Adams)
- In the UK, a two-cassette Hitch Hiker's video was released in mid-1992, ...
- 3.5 Laserdisc (Douglas Adams)
- There is a laserdisc set of the Hitchhikers Guide in the US now....
- 3.7 The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide Info-Blurb
- (taken from the Bertram's Buyers Notes for September, 1994)...
- 3.8 The 10th Anniversary Radio Scripts (Douglas Adams)
- The definitive information is:...
- 3.9 Voyager Books over the Web (Douglas Adams)
- From a blurb posted in alt.fan.douglas-adams:...
- 3.10 DNA's New Company (Douglas Adams)
- You may be interested to know that DA has set up with others a ...
- 4.1 The Ending to "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" (Douglas Adams)
- Not all of DNA's writing is easily grasped. This section ...
- 4.2 Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Douglas Adams)
- This thing has caused quite a lot of argument for a 10 page story. *grin*...
- 4.3 Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (aka Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings) (Douglas Adams)
- Paul is a real person, who wrote some appalling poetry. DNA used ...
- 4.4 The Incredible Disappearing 7th Episode (Douglas Adams)
- It's a crock, actually. What happened is that the original 6 ...
- 4.5 What the heck happened with Ford's name? (Douglas Adams)
- Okay, this is the footnote from the original radio scripts, and ...
- 4.6 Why did Douglas do that Visions of Heaven and Hell program anyway?
- [Insert handy description of Heaven and Hell program here]...
- 4.7 Marvin, the Pink Floyd, and Everything (Douglas Adams)
- Why was Pink Floyd's music taken out of the radio series? Well, from ...
- 4.8 Probable Solution to the Ill Guide Puzzle (Douglas Adams)
- (This from Christ van Willegen)...
- 5.1 Stuff (Douglas Adams)
- The phrase the long dark teatime of the soul appears in Chapter 1 ...
- 5.1 Stuff 2 (Douglas Adams)
- It seems that the whole towel bit is taken from real life. Here's ...
- 5.1 Stuff 3 (Douglas Adams)
- Zaphod Beeblebrox is alive and well and living in Sydney, Australia. ...
- 5.2 Number Games (I.E. The 42 Thing) (Douglas Adams)
- Yes, 6 times 9 equals 54. Yes, 6 times 9 equals 42 in base thirteen,...
- 5.3 Other Authors (Douglas Adams)
- If you like Douglas Adams' writing, you might appreciate books by:...
- 5.4 The Future (Douglas Adams)
- Having just released Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams says he wants ...
- 5.5 Adams and Pink Floyd
- So what's the story with Adams and Pink Floyds newest album, The ...
- 5.6 Related Electronic Information (Douglas Adams)
- I've attempted to start a DNA ftp site at my site, and if you want ...
- 5.6.5 The Ultra-Complete Indexes (Douglas Adams)
- Before asking questions like I simply cannot find the place ...
- 5.7 The Movie (Douglas Adams)
- Here's the latest and most true sounding story so far:...
- 5.8 Terran Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Recipes (Douglas Adams)
- This is a VERY abridged recipe of the original, which you can ...
- 5.9 Differences Between the US and UK Editions of LtUaE (Douglas Adams)
- You can find this (lengthy) discussion at my ftp site at ftp.umd.umich....
- 5.10 Marvin, the Paranoid Rock Star (Douglas Adams)
- Marvin was a (UK) pop-star. He not only had a number of singles released, ...
- 7.1 ISBN Numbers - Book Information (Douglas Adams)
- The ISBN Numbers of DNA's Works I've gathered so far are as follows:...
- 7.2 Translations - Book Information (Douglas Adams)
- DNA's works have been translated into many different languages. Here'...
- 7.3 The Salmon of Doubt - Book Information (Douglas Adams)
- Well, he's done it again. I'll keep the below in for reference, for a ...
- 8 ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha - Book Information (Douglas Adams)
- ZZ9 is the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Fan club. They ...
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