Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide ToThe Galaxy by Neil Gaiman, 275 pages
This is a biography of Douglas Adams and the story of his
body of work. As far as novels go, Adams
wasn’t very prolific, but the Hitchhiker’s Guide, which started as a radio
program, has also been made into a television series, a movie, a graphic novel,
and a game and Adams did other television writing as well. For example, he wrote some of the episodes for
Doctor Who. There is a lot of
information about Adams here. I didn’t
know much about his personal life. Although
I’ve read his books and seen the movie, I didn’t know about the computer game or
the television and radio series. I
especially liked a little anecdote about how Adams once got a 10 out of 10 on a
short story he wrote for a class. The
teacher was a notoriously hard grader and everyone complained that he didn’t
give any good grades. Apparently, Adams
was the only one. Adams’s work has so
much impact that the last third of this biography is about things that happened
after he died. Gaiman is a good writer
and does a good job telling about Adams.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who has liked any of Adams’s
books.
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