42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

Edited By Kevin Jon Davies

Genre:-Biography/Memoir/Literary Collection/Diaries and Journals

Pages:-320

Publisher:-Unbound

Blurb:-A full-colour compendium of hundreds of never-before-published artefacts from Adams' archive, including diary entries, notes and musings, letters, photographs, scripts, poems and more

-Authorised by the estate of Douglas Adams, it includes personal memorabilia from his family.

-Features a foreword from Stephen Fry and letters written after Adams' death from friends and fans; Neil Gaiman, Margo Buchann, Dirk Maggs, Robbie Stamp, Arvind David.

 When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes ull of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas's long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time.

 Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how the deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with all the information in the world living at our fingertips; sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books; journal entries from his forays into home computing-it is matter of legend that Douglas bought the very first Mac in the UK; musings on how the internet would disrupt the CD-Rom industry, among others.

 42 also features archival material charting Douglas's school days through Cambridge, Footlights, collaborations with Graham Chapman, and early scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently. Alongside details of his most celebrated works  are projects that never came to fruition, including the pilot for radio programme They'll Never Play That on the Radio and a space-inspired theme park ride.

 Douglas's personal papers prove that the greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that collide in our own imagination, and offer aa captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers and most

 After the Hitchhiker's Guide radio series aired in 1978, young art student Kevin Jon Davies sought out its little-known author Douglas Adams to record an early fanzine interview. He went on to direct The Making of Hitchhiker, the 1993 documentary for BBC Video, and Adams invited him to art-direct. The Illustrated Hitchhiker, a large-format book with pioneering digital composites. Since then he has contributed to a number of Adams-related projects, including The Hexagonal Phase (2018), the final radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Thank you #AD #Gifted

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My Review:- Growing up listening then watching Hitchhiker's Guide, this was a book that I was looking forward to and I have to say It didn't disappoint me. This has been a really interesting read, I've read it over a period of time, keep going back to it. I never knew that he wrote 3 episodes of Dr Who, I thought he had only wrote one, these are the things that you will find it this great book It's not a book that you have to read page by page, you can dip in and out, as well as flick through, which I did when I first received it.