Douglas Noël Adams was a renowned English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician, best known for his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The series started as a radio show and expanded into a popular "trilogy" of five books, which sold over fifteen million copies during his lifetime. The series also spawned a television series, comic book series, computer game, and a feature film.
Apart from his work on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Adams was also a scriptwriter for the science fiction television series Doctor Who and served as its script editor during the seventeenth season. He was known for his witty and extremely incisive brand of irreverent science-fiction, which shed light on some of the greatest philosophical questions known to mankind. His other notable works include the Dirk Gently novels and the co-written Liff books and Last Chance to See.
Adams was born in 1952 and died in May 2001 due to a heart attack. He was an environmental activist and had a keen interest in technology, being the first person in Europe to purchase a Mac. He was also known for his love for fast cars, cameras, and other "techno gizmos". Towards the end of his life, he was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment. A posthumous collection of essays and other material, including an incomplete novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Books
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1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979
2
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1980
3
Life, the Universe and Everything
1982
4
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1984
5
Mostly Harmless
1992
6
And Another Thing...
2009
Dirk Gently Books
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987
2
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
1988
3
The Salmon of Doubt
2002
Doctor Who Cross Cult Books (with James Goss, with Gary Russell, with Una McCormack)
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1
Shada
2012
2
Big Bang Generation
2015
Standalone Novels
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1
Starship Titanic
1997
Non-Fiction Books
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Year
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1
The Meaning of Liff
1983
2
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book
1986
3
Last Chance to See
1990
4
The Deeper Meaning of Liff
1990
5
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams
2023
Doctor Who: Target Collection Books
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1
Doctor Who and The Pirate Planet
2017
2
The Christmas Invasion
2018
3
The Day of the Doctor
2018
4
Rose
2018
5
Resurrection of the Daleks
2019
6
Revelation of the Daleks
2019
7
The Crimson Horror
2020
8
Dalek
2021
9
The Witchfinders
2021
10
The Giggle
2024
Doctor Who Novelizations Books
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The Time of Angels
1963
2
Doctor Who and the Daleks / Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks