'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of an ape-descended human called Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea.
This is also the story of what that idea became: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- the original radio series which started it all, and the five book 'trilogy', the TV series, almost-film, computer game, towel and website that followed.
Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman also tells the whole story …
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of an ape-descended human called Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea.
This is also the story of what that idea became: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- the original radio series which started it all, and the five book 'trilogy', the TV series, almost-film, computer game, towel and website that followed.
Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman also tells the whole story of Liff, the Universe of Dick Gently, and everything else Douglas ever worked on, including his posthumous collection The Salmon of Doubt. As Douglas himself said, it is 'certainly the most outstandingly brilliant book to have been written about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy since this morning.'
Completely updated, with a new foreword by Neil Gaiman
This description comes from the 2003 Titan Books edition.
Paperback, 288 páginas
Publicado el 15 de septiembre de 2009 por Titan Books.
I had already read this one as a teenager and all I remember was the first chapter. It's a great holiday read, but I was surprised at the weakness of the plot. It is possible to write comedy with better plots, as others like Pratchett and, in a way, Neil Gaiman, have proved. But then, I don't think there would have been a Pratchett at all (or a funny Gaiman) without Adams first.
