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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Quotes
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For the 2005 film of the same name, see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is... Once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the...


Author Biography

Name: Douglas Adams
Birth Date: March 11, 1952
Place of Birth: Cambridge, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Douglas Adams
4211 words, approx. 14 pages
The son of a theology teacher/management consultant and a nurse, Douglas Adams attended Cambridge University, studying English literature. While at school, he spent much of his time writing sketches for Cambridge Footlights, a theatrical club which provi...
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Biography of Douglas Adams
3292 words, approx. 11 pages
"Every particle of the universe . . . affects every other particle, however faintly or obliquely. Everything interconnects with everything. The beating of a butterfly's wings in China can affect the course of an Atlantic hurricane. If I could interrogate...
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Biography of Douglas (Noel) Adams
2693 words, approx. 9 pages
With the publication of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1979, Douglas Adams both established a cult and became a cult figure. He continued his saga with four more novels--The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe, and...


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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Information
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an...


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The Washington Post
A Guide to the Galaxy
12/17/2004: 961 words, approx. 3 pages
SILVER SPRING'S booming downtown seems to be a success, especially if you believe that the purpose of the much-vaunted "new urbanism" is actually to turn close-in suburbs into open-air shopping malls full of chain stores and restaurants. But development has brought some good...
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The Independent - London
A mammoth guide to the galaxy
07/17/1996: 643 words, approx. 2 pages
It may look like an elephant, but to astronomers this picture is actually the clearest yet taken of the heart of the Milky Way - and they say that it shows our galaxy has a bright future - for a few billion years, at...
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AP News
6 film studios win China DVD piracy case
4/25/2007: 525 words, approx. 2 pages
A court ordered a Beijing company on Wednesday to pay 195,000 yuan ($25,000) in damages to six U.S. movie studios for selling pirated DVDs, a court official said, in the latest in a string of lawsuits over Chinese film piracy.The ruling was the second this...
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Vibe.com
VStage: Beats Over Broadway
5/7/2004: 472 words, approx. 2 pages
The Great White Way has recently gotten a splash of color and a brand new audience thanks to hip hop pioneers who continue to push the definition of urban beyond our wildest imagination. We can give a standing ovation to P. Diddy's solid and ambitious...
 


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Irony in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, the novel's science-fiction elements are less important than the humor and irony he employs to point out the difference between "earthlings" moral goals and actual behavior.


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