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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. 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...
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic"....
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- May 1987
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- 1987
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- 2107
The Salmon of Doubt
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams. It consists largely of essays about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the...
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- 2001 ,
- 2002
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- 2002
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- 395
Mostly Harmless
Mostly Harmless is a novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It is described on the cover of the first editions as "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy".
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- 1992
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- 218
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984, ISBN 0-345-39183-7) is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it...
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- 1984
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- 1984
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- 1178
The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (UK Edition: ISBN 0-330-28121-6, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-55347-3) is a humorous dictionary of toponomy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the United Kingdom in 1983, and first published in the USA...
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- Nov 11, 1983
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The title is a phrase...
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- 1988
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- Oct 10, 1988
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- 1622
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Life, the Universe and Everything
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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- 1982
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- 1634
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0-345-39181-0) is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was...
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- 1980
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- Jan 1, 1980
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- 1312
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a short story by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe. It is included with several collections but has never been released as a standalone work. It first appeared in The Utterly Utterly...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the title of the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the...
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- 1979 ,
- 1986
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- Oct 12, 1979
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- 1773 ,
- 487531
Last Chance to See
Last Chance to See is a book written by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine first published in 1990, as a companion to the BBC radio series of the same name. The theme of documentary was to feature animal species which were endangered or threatened...
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- 1990
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- 1990
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- 102656
Deeper Meaning of Liff
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Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC Radio production sold as an audio book on two cassette tapes. The programme was first broadcast in 1998, marking the 20th anniversary of the first radio programme in the...
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- 1998
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The Dirk Gently Omnibus
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Adams D & Perkins G
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Globalement inoffensive
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Informe Sobre La Tierra
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Two complete novels
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Mostly Brilliant
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Iras Celestiales
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Salmon Doubt
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Shada
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