DOUGLAS ADAMS

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The Series That Started It All Over twenty years ago, a series was broadcast on BBC Radio which was to change forever the way people thought about Science Fiction, with its characters like Ford Prefect, Marvin the Paranoid Android and Slartibartfast, the fjord designer. These BBC recordings of the radio series scripts are just as funny and fascinating to hear today as they were then. The Collectors' Edition CD boxed set includes not only both radio series, but interviews with the late Douglas Adams and his Guide to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide.
First series (Primary Phase)		Second series (Secondary Phase)		Complete & unabridged
	2 x Audio Cassettes 2 x Audio CDs		2 x Audio Cassettes 2 x Audio CDs		8 x CD Collectors Edition
On To Television The radio series was so popular that it soon made it to the small screen, gaining many more fans on the way. The TV series is still available on VHS video, either as two separate parts or a better-value double pack.
VHS Video Recordings of TV Series			Also from sendit.com
	TV Series Part 1		TV Series Part 2		Complete TV Series
The Books That Took The Story Around The World
Those who had listened to the radio series wanted more, and Douglas Adams rewrote the radio scripts into the form of a novel, "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". This book became a great success, selling all round the world, and was followed by two more to complete the trilogy, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and "Life, the Universe and Everything". Since the public's appetite for Hitch-Hiker novels was unappeased, the trilogy has since expanded to include "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless" You can still buy all these books individually or in a single volume, as well as audio versions.
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Thursday lunchtime, the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very strange and startling place.
	Paperback Edition		4 x Audio Cassettes narr. Douglas Adams		Audio CD edition
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Arthur Dent's adventures continue with equally unsuccessful attempts to get a real cup of tea out of the Heart of Gold's tea machine or a smile out of Marvin the Paranoid Android. A dive towards the heart of a sun in an unmanned spaceship leads inevitably to a visit to a restaurant situated at the very last moment of Time itself.
	Paperback Edition		4 x Audio Cassettes narr. Douglas Adams		Audio CD edition
Life, the Universe and Everything
In consequence of a number of stunning catas­trophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on pre­historic Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewild­ering but also that most of the things that happen in it are stagger­ingly unfair.
	Paperback Edition		4 x Audio Cassettes narr. Douglas Adams		Audio CD edition
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
In the fourth book of the trilogy, just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.
	Paperback Edition		4 x Audio Cassettes		Audio CD edition
Mostly Harmless
The fifth and final part of the "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Twenty years on, the Guide falls into the hands of Arthur Dent's daughter, Random, whose mother, unexpectedly to all concerned, is Trillian. Random journeys to an insignificant planet, whose entry in the Guide reads "Mostly harmless."
	Paperback Edition		4 x Audio Cassettes narr. Douglas Adams		Audio CD edition
Special Editions In the years since the series began, there have been several related publications, from compilations of all the books into a single volume, to special editions. Here are some of them:
The Hitch-hiker Trilogy (first 4 books in 1 volume)
	Paperback Edition
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (All 5 books in 1 volume)
	Hardback Edition Paperback Edition
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Boxed Set, read by the author.
	20 x Audio Cassettes narr. Douglas Adams		Audio CD edition
Douglas Adams's Guide to "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (20th Anniversary compilation)
	Audio Cassette
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Biography of Douglas Adams by Neil Gaiman
	Paperback Edition
The Pocket Essential Hitchhiker's Guide Everything you ever wanted to know about Douglas Admas and the HHG
	Paperback Edition
Other books by Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt			Last ever book
	Paperback Edition Hardback Edition
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
	Paperback Edition		Audio CD
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
	Paperback Edition Hardback Edition
Dirk Gently Omnibus (both of above)
	Hardback Edition
Starship Titanic (with Terry Jones)
	Paperback Edition
Last Chance to See (about endangered wildlife, with Mark Carwardine
	Paperback Edition
The Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd)
	Paperback Edition
The Deeper Meaning of Liff
	Paperback Edition

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