This quick little addition to the series, far more subdued than the previous "phase," is paradoxically a better introduction for newcomers to Adams's often imitated brand of satire. Arthur Dent, the ...

Mostly the stories follow the misadventures of the rather hapless, and out of his depth no matter what situation he finds himself in, Arthur Dent. Whisked off the planet Earth just before its ...

The author of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ is celebrated for his inventive whimsy. But Adams’s far-sighted ideas ...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most influential stories ever told. It’s a satire, a comedy, a science-fiction epic, a work of philosophy and so much else. Douglas Adams, who I was ...

When Douglas Adams died in 2001 at the age of 49, he left behind a rich body of work including the hugely popular The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The science fiction humor series, which began in ...

"Don't Panic!"Those two words, along with a two-digit number, 42, are engrained in the minds of a certain group of people across the globe. Maybe even some clinically depressed robots.The words are ...

In the first novel, the Earth is destroyed by an alien race known as Vogons — essentially bureaucrats, who destroy it because it stands in the way of a hyperspace expressway they were working on. Dent ...

Around the release of the Harry Potter films, Warwick Davis played an android voiced by Alan Rickman in The Hitchhiker's ...

Elon Musk’s latest venture, xAI, intertwines the realms of science and science fiction, drawing inspiration from one of Douglas Adams’ timeless masterpieces. What Happened: Musk’s pioneering venture, ...

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY spanned numerous formats, from radio to prose, to TV and finally to film in 2005. Now a new biography has exhumed the archives to bring readers 16 draft chapters ...