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092    BIO|bADAMS 
100 1  Adams, Douglas,|d1952-2001,|eauthor. 
245 10 42 :|bthe wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams /
       |cedited by Kevin Jon Davies ; foreword by Stephen Fry. 
246 3  Forty-two :|bthe wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams 
246 30 Wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams 
264  1 London :|bUnbound,|c2023. 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    320 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c31 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Introduction -- 1. Early (talking) doors -- Dear Douglas: 
       Margo Buchanan -- 2. Cambridge life -- 3. Collaborations -
       - Feature: on '42' -- 4. Deep thoughts -- 5. Doctor Who --
       6. The guide -- Dear Douglas: Dirk Maggs -- Feature: on 
       love -- 7. Snail mail -- 8. Fame, flying and awards -- 
       Feature: on 'bop ad' -- 9. Later invitations to 
       collaborate -- Feature: on the desktop -- 10. Holisitic 
       detective -- Dear Douglas: Arvind Ethan David -- 11. Last 
       chances -- 12. Fan of science and technology -- Dear 
       Douglas: Neil Gaiman -- 13. Exploring the digital world --
       Dear Douglas: Robbie Stamp -- Feature: on 'The division 
       bell' -- Epilogue: dead for tax reasons. 
520    "When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes 
       full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and 
       even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas's long-time 
       collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal 
       artefacts appear in print for the very first time. Douglas
       was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his 
       artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology 
       led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a 
       convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with 
       all the information in the world living at our fingertips;
       sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books;
       journal entries from his forays into home computing - it 
       is a matter of legend that Douglas bought the very first 
       Mac in the UK; musings on how the internet would disrupt 
       the cd-rom industry, among others. 42 also features 
       archival material charting Douglas's school days through 
       Cambridge, Footlights, collaborations with Graham Chapman,
       and early scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, 
       Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently. Alongside details of his 
       most celebrated works are projects that never came to 
       fruition, including the pilot for radio programme They'll 
       Never Play That on the Radio and a space-inspired theme 
       park ride. Douglas's personal papers prove that the 
       greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that 
       collide in our own imagination, and offer a captivating 
       insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's 
       greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers"--
       Publisher's description. 
600 10 Adams, Douglas,|d1952-2001. 
600 10 Adams, Douglas,|d1952-2001|xFriends and associates. 
600 10 Adams, Douglas,|d1952-2001|vAnecdotes. 
600 10 Adams, Douglas,|d1952-2001|vManuscripts|vFacsimiles. 
600 17 Adams, Douglas,|d1952-2001.|2fast|1https://id.oclc.org/
       worldcat/entity/E39PBJxhkQGbbdgtx94vJRmrv3 
650  0 Authors, English|vBiography. 
655  0 Biography. 
655  7 Diaries.|2lcgft 
655  7 Anecdotes.|2lcgft 
700 1  Davies, Kevin Jon,|eeditor. 
700 1  Fry, Stephen,|d1957-|ewriter of foreword.