The following contains mild spoilers for The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. Given it started as a half-hour radio comedy, Hitchhikers’ plot is surreal, episodic and prone to (what appear to be) ...
Adams’s universe has always thrived on a very British absurdity. Think Monty Python with a towel. Think Terry Pratchett on a particularly caffeinated day. The magic isn’t just in what his kooky ...
On Oct. 12, 1979 — 45 years ago Saturday, the first edition of Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction novel “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” was published in London. The story was originally a ...
Science fiction has always had a way of predicting the future. The very fact that the genre often looks to upcoming periods of time allows its creators to imagine what life might be like as technology ...
The following contains mild spoilers for The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. Following its birth as a 1978 BBC Radio sitcom through its many and varied adaptations, Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhikers’ ...