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Cambridge graduate Douglas Adams managed to bring humour into science fiction while working on the cult BBC TV show, Doctor Who, but his imagination was really let loose with the ground-breaking radio series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (since been made into a TV series, a book, a game and no doubt a T-shirt). He has continued to write occasionally in the humorous SF field (Adams seems to regard writing as slightly more painful than going to the dentist) and to indulge his passion for electronic gadgets. His last completed project, Starship Titanic, was a graphical adventure game.

Douglas sadly died in 2001 - he will be much missed. (At the time of writing, the web site www.starshiptitanic.com has a short memorial.)

Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams by M. J. Simpson
Not a book by Adams, but the first definitive biography of the man whose humour and far-reaching creativity touched so many readers. There will be others (in fact there are going to be for sure), but this is a great start, a book that's well researched and really gets into the heart of the man with some excellent anecdotes. New 29 September 2003

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Primary Phase.  
The original radio series on CD - this is far and above the best way to appreciate Hitchhiker - the true original, and there simply hasn't been radio before or since that was so funny.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Secondary Phase.  
The original radio series on CD - this is far and above the best way to appreciate Hitchhiker - the true original, and there simply hasn't been radio before or since that was so funny.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Tertiary Phase.  
The original radio series on CD - this is far and above the best way to appreciate Hitchhiker - the true original, and there simply hasn't been radio before or since that was so funny. These are the "new" shows, produced after Adams' death to reflect the later books. Not quite as good as the originals, but an essential to complete the magnificent madness.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - RADIO SCRIPTS.
Scripts of the original radio series. If you're a fan of the books (see below) you really want this, as some of the best humour was lost in the translation. Brilliant stuff - get it.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a trilogy in 5 parts.
Based on an even-funnier radio series, THHGTTG takes the bewildered Arthur Dent on a freewheeling tour of space courtesy of an alien called Ford Prefect and an electronic thumb. Hilarious stuff. The whole 5 books in one. We don't know if the US version is hardback.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Book one of the five part "trilogy" (the weak humour of this concept is probably down to the publisher, not the author) sees Arthur Dent rushed from his home just before the Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Not unreasonably, he is a bit miffed. It doesn't particularly help to discover that the Earth was, in fact, a giant computer to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
The trilogy continues. Plenty more hilarity with big set pieces at the aforementioned restaurant. Ends rather unnervingly with Arthur and Ford dumped on a prehistoric Earth with an abandoned "B" ark (the "A" ark never left) full of hairdressers and management consultants, evacuated from a supposedly dying planet.

Life, the Universe and Everything.
Final part of the original trilogy, though by now the story had veered away from the original radio series to use a story that was originally intended as a Doctor Who script (rejected as too silly) which had aliens called the Krikkit who used clubs to power red, ball-like bombs. The madness continues ...

The Salmon of Doubt: and other writings
For several years before his death, Adams was supposed to be coming out with a third Dirk Gently novel, The Salmon of Doubt. It even got as far as a publication date and availability for pre-order (in fact if you take a look on the Amazon catalogue, spookily it's still listed as published in 1999), when the publisher discovered with some horror that the always-reluctant-to-write Adams was not even half way through it. The novel was never finished, but this essential addition to any Adams collection makes sure that you know just what you were missing by giving the work in progress and how it was supposed to turn out. Even more interesting are the various short pieces, many of them non-fiction that Adams wrote but haven't been published in a book. Adams is sadly missed since his death in 2001 - he was a unique contributor to creative thinking. Published 2003.

The Salmon of Doubt: and other writings

So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
Even more of the trilogy. Arthur returns to Earth (mark 2), while Ford continues on his travels. The humour was getting a bit thin by now and some of the best characters like Marvin, the paranoid android, only had minor parts. If you liked the rest, you'll want this, though.

Mostly Harmless.
Definitely(ish) the last Hitchhiker book. A rather uncomfortable combination of the traditional Hitchhiker humour and a love story, when Arthur meets the teenage daughter he never knew he had. Meanwhile the new version of the Guide is acting very strangely. Mostly Harmless refers to the (entire) entry on the Earth in the Guide, after its update by Ford Prefect from Harmless.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
The humour is not as strong as in the Hitchhiker books, but there's some neat ideas (like the Krikkit stuff in Hitchiker, some was lifted from unused Adams scripts for the Dr Who TV series). Adams' enthusiasm for Apple Macs comes through strongly. Dirk is a very strange PI - but you'd have to be to cope with a sofa that's stuck on your stairs and a wild horse in the bathroom. Enjoyable and readable.

  The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul.
Dirk returns to solve problems that start with a passenger exploding at Heathrow and go on to bring in the old Norse Gods of Asgard, who frankly aren't well pleased about things. There's a spot of love interest and it all runs along quite smoothly - probably slightly better than the original Gently book.

The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul

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