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	Douglas Adams Encyclopedia Article @ InnerMan.com (Inner Man) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Douglas Adams was born to Janet (Donovan) Adams (now Janet Thrift) and Christopher Douglas Adams in Cambridge, England.
		Douglas Adams was a good friend with Gary Brooker, the lead singer, pianist and songwriter of the progressive rock band Procol Harum.
		Adams is known to have invited Brooker to one of the many parties that Adams held at his house.
	www.innerman.com /encyclopedia/Douglas_Adams (4973 words)

	Douglas Adams Biography
		Douglas Noel Adams was born on March 11, 1952 in Cambridge.
		Douglas married Jane Belson on November 24 1991 (they had been introduced to each other in the early 80:s by a mutual friend) and they have a daughter by the name Polly Jane, born on June 22, 1994.
		Douglas was cremated in Santa Barbara and is buried in Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London, England, plot: Square 74, Plot 52377.
	www.douglasadams.se /biography (1097 words)

	The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Douglas Adams has averred that he was not aware of this at the time, and repeatedly dismissed this as an irrelevant concoction, saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13 [...] I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13."
		Douglas Adams was asked many times during his career why he chose the number forty-two.
		Douglas Adams's statement on what forty-two means; see this message.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything (1483 words)

	ZZ9 - Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001)
		Douglas Adams was born on 11th March 1952 in Cambridge.
		Adams was passionately interested in computers and in 1994 co-founded a company called The Digital Village (later renamed h2g2) which produced the computer game Starship Titanic (novelised by Terry Jones) and the website h2g2.com, now part of the BBC.
		Douglas Adams suffered a fatal heart attack on 11th May 2001 in California.
	www.zz9.org /dna (354 words)

	DNA/Biography
		Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.
		Douglas was a founding director of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, a digital media and Internet company with which he created the 1998 CD-ROM Starship Titanic, a Codie Award-winning (1999) and BAFTA-nominated (1998) adventure game.
		When Douglas won his first Golden Pan (for 1,000,000 paperback sales of HHGG) in 1984, it was the quickest that any Pan book had ever reached that figure, and Douglas was the youngest winner (i.e.
	www.douglasadams.com /dna/bio.html (665 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| So long, Douglas Adams, and thanks for all the fun
		As soon as the news began to spread that author Douglas Adams had died Friday from a sudden heart attack at age 49, tributes to the science fiction humorist began to blossom all across the Internet.
		Adams drew applause from the audience when he said record companies were fighting the Napster file-trading program to protect a business model being rendered obsolete by technological advances.
		Adams' focus on the unrealized promise of micropayments was a subtheme in a much larger message: the tendency of civilizations to be baffled by new technologies.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2001/05/15/douglas_adams (1118 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Douglas Adams
		According to Adams, the idea for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria (though he joked that the BBC would instead claim it was Spain because "It was easier to spell"), gazing at the stars.
		Adams was friendly with their guitarist David Gilmour and, as his 42nd birthday gift, was allowed to make a guest appearance at one of their 1994 concerts in London, playing rhythm guitar on the songs "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse".
		Douglas Adams pleased his coterie of fans in the USENET newsgroup alt.fan.douglas-adams by following the group and occasionally posting himself.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Douglas_Adams (3362 words)

	alt.fan.douglas-adams FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is biographical information about Douglas Adams, answers to the frequently asked questions that plague the group, interesting notes and tidbits that you may not have known, and anything else that I and readers of the group have found interesting.
		Douglas Adams also started work on another game, where the emphasis was to be on creating a virtual reality in the adventure, but petered out after his partner lost interest.
		Douglas has stated that he has just set up a whole new company, part of the remit of which is to allow him to develop CD ROM games, however, so perhaps we will see some new games from the man...
	www.faqs.org /faqs/douglas-adams-FAQ (7967 words)

	Infocom Authors - Douglas Adams
		Douglas Adams was born on March 11, 1952 in Cambridge, England.
		Vice versa just at that time Douglas found out about Infocom adventures and concluded that if there was to be a computer game based on his novels, he wanted it to be done by Infocom.
		Chosen to team up with Douglas was Steve Meretzky, based on his previous experience with science-fiction themed adventures.
	www.infocom-if.org /authors/adams.html (569 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| So long, and thanks for all the books
		The author Douglas Adams, who has died aged 49, became a household name when his BBC TV series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was turned into a cult science fiction novel.
		Adams had worked as a radio and television writer and producer before his life was changed by the book's publication in 1979.
		Born in Cambridge in 1952, Douglas Adams was educated in Essex before returning to Cambridge to study at St John's College.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1326695.stm (616 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Author Douglas Adams dies
		Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952 and educated in Essex before returning to Cambridge to study at St John's College.
		Adams was also an internet pioneer, presenting a series on it on BBC Radio 4.
		Adams married Jane Belson in 1991 and had a daughter, Polly, in 1994.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1326657.stm (623 words)

	Douglas Adams, a Renaissance man (1952-2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Douglas was of course the famous author of "The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" (and its different versions), but he also wrote some other master pieces like "Last chance to see" or the Dirk Gently novels.
		Douglas was a fascinating man, a Renaissance man, with a lot of interests and passions.
		Douglas was a writer, an actor who was at heart a darwinist, a zoologist, a radical atheist, a guitarist, a lover of new technologies,...
	www.douglasadams.info (227 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: A: Adams, Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		CBC Radio: Douglas Adams - Listen to Douglas Adams when he was guest on Morningside (1987) talking about "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
		Douglas Adams and the Enigma - Provides quotations and parts from interviews of the "Hitchhiker" author.
		Douglas Adams view of Australia - The science fiction author describes his view of Australia.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/A/Adams,_Douglas (790 words)

	Douglas Adams
		Douglas Adams is best known as the creator of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the story of Earthman Arthur Dent who survives the destruction of his home planet (demolished to make way for an interstellar bypass) by hitching a lift on a passing starship.
		Among the many humorous asides that fill the pages of the HHGG series are references to the fictional band "Disaster Area" (said to be the loudest band in the universe)which were inspired by UK band Pink Floyd who were themselves famous for loud and lavish stage shows.
		Adams incidentally was personally acquainted with David Gilmour and made a guest appearance with the band, during a 1994 London concert, playing playing rhythm guitar on the songs "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse".
	www.nndb.com /people/731/000023662 (809 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Douglas Adams dies at age 49
		Friends and fans of Douglas Adams yesterday paid tribute to the bestselling author of the comic science fiction odyssey, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, who has died in the United States, aged 49.
		Adams, whose books sold more than 14 million copies worldwide, will be remembered for the bizarre comic creations that populated the Hitch Hiker's books, but were first aired via a BBC radio series in 1978.
		Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952 and christened Douglas Noel.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,489980,00.html (741 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2003_03_09 - New Book About Python Collaborator Douglas Adams
		Douglas Adams died May 11, 2001, but his contributions to humorous fiction are unforgettable.
		While we're on the subject, some of Douglas Adams' unpublished works were posthumously released in a new volume last year.
		The first two-thirds of the book was assembled by Douglas Adams' editor and consists of essays, lectures, magazine articles, and other short pieces written by Adams.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2003/llama187.html (573 words)

	Infocomicon: Author -> Douglas Adams
		Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England, in 1952.
		Adams turned The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy into a book in 1979, followed by sequels The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in 1980 and Life, the Universe and Everything in 1982, making it a trilogy.
		Douglas Adams was a well-known Infocom fan, Mac fanatic, computer enthusiast, and all-around damn funny guy.
	egotron.com /infocom/author.php (316 words)

	The Mediadrome - News
		Adams himself never thought he was a serious science fiction writer.
		Adams wrote for everyone, his stuff was just funny - whether you liked science fiction or not.
		Douglas Adams is survived by his wife, Jane and daughter Polly.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/news/may_2001/adams_tribute.htm (1131 words)

	Douglas Adams
		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).
		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.
		Adams is sadly missed since his death in 2001 - he was a unique contributor to creative thinking.
	www.cul.co.uk /books/sfauth9.htm (1117 words)

	Douglas Adams
		Douglas Adams is the creator of all the various contradictory manifestations of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which include a radio series, a tv series, a stage play, record albums, a computer game, a series of internationally best-selling books, a set of graphic novels and, apotheotically, a bath towel.
		In a long and varied career Douglas has also written the Dirk Gently novels, a non-fiction book (Last Chance to See) on endangered species, worked as a chicken shed cleaner, a bodyguard for an Arab royal family, and played guitar for Pink Floyd.
		Douglas is a founding partner and the Chief Fantasist of The Digital Village.
	www.tdv.com /html/douglas_a.html (483 words)

	AlterNet: Movie Mix: Rediscovering Douglas Adams' DNA
		When Adams suddenly and shockingly died on May 11, 2001, he left behind a wealth of unfinished business, among it the screenplay for this film, which he was in the process of revising for the umpteenth time.
		Despite the plentiful comic elements, Adams always tackled larger themes and complex metaphysics, and even in alien landscapes, the particular failures and foibles of his pantheon were always recognizably human.
		Besides which, given the fact that Adams chronically hated most of what he'd written as soon as it was finished, he likely would have had some dissatisfaction with the film regardless of the result.
	www.alternet.org /movies/21906 (2082 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - 'Hitchhiker' author Adams dies - May 12, 2001
		LONDON, England -- Douglas Adams, author of the cult science-fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has died at the age of 49.
		Adams later recalled how he first thought of the book during a teenage trip around Europe.
		Adams and his barrister wife moved from their home in north London to California in 1999, after he set up multimedia company The Digital Village.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/05/12/adams.death (444 words)

	NPR : 'Hitchhiker,' a Guide to Douglas Adams
		Weekend Edition Sunday, February 1, 2004 ·; When Douglas Adams died in 2001 at the age of 49, he left behind a rich body of work including the hugely popular The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
		Adams was also working to bring the story to the big screen.
		Adams was a legendary procrastinator, often writing scripts up until the last minute, even as the radio actors waited for their lines, says M.J. Simpson, author of Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1624327 (335 words)

	Locus Online News: Douglas Adams dies
		Douglas Adams, author of the popular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, died Friday, May 11, in Santa Barbara, California, of a heart attack.
		Adams was British-born and lived near London until 1999, when he relocated to California.
		Douglas Adams's official site has a message board of fan tributes.
	www.locusmag.com /2001/News/News05a.html (316 words)

	Interview: Douglas Adams
		The news of Starship Titanic broke in late 1997 when it was announced that Douglas Adams would once again be releasing a computer game dubbed "Starship Titanic." The Mac version was considered a shoe-in for the most part during those days.
		Adams was a huge Mac fan, and it seemed only sensical that his game be released on the Macintosh.
		I've got to admit that brainstorming questions to ask Douglas Adams is kind of like imagining how you might act should you be given a million dollars.
	www.macreactor.com /interviews/dadams.shtml (908 words)

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