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[Lyra]

Originally posted by Decado
Douglas Adams was british if im not misstaken...

You're not, and he was, and his death remains a great loss. I was given The Salmon of Doubt for Christmas, which was bits and pieces in progress, taken off his beloved Mac - he was a great Mac evangelist. It's got the beginning chapters of a new Dirk Gently adventure which shows that he was coming back to the form that was missing in Mostly Harmless.

Share and enjoy ...

[Ricky]

There was actually a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game for the older Macs with System 6...

[Darkshadow]

Sure, Lyra, but it also says he wasn't sure if it was going to turn out to be a Dirk Gentley adventure or another Hitchhiker's Guide when he was done with it...or even both.

I went out and bought Salmon of Doubt when it came out.

Doh! And I'll have to buy it again now...just realized that. I had my car towed back in March - driving with no insurence is a big deal here in Delaware, if you want to know why - and I couldn't pay to get it out. Freakin guys threw all my books that were in the trunk away.

I had probably $3,000 worth of books in the trunk....

[Lyra]

Originally posted by Darkshadow
Sure, Lyra, but it also says he wasn't sure if it was going to turn out to be a Dirk Gentley adventure or another Hitchhiker's Guide when he was done with it...

I think you'll find that was the title, not the chapters.

[wdw_]

Originally posted by Darkshadow
Gah, Microsoft in control of a time machine. There's nothing scarier than that!

If Micro$oft owned a time machine it would probably cause a huge paradox. They would travel to the future and take future technology back to the past and implement it in their products. This would cause the technology in the future to be more advanced than when MS had originally visited, so they would have brought back more advanced technology and implemented that. And this would loop for all time and create a paradox.
I see time travel paradoxes all the time in stories and movies and I've come to the conclusion that time travel of any kind has an extremely high risk of paradox.

[Trip]

Anybody hear about the Hitchhickers Movie? The script and stuff is done last I heard. It's suppost to come out in like two years or something!

And thanks symphonix! I'll go check out some of those books as soon as I get the time.

[symphonix]

There is an update on the Hitchhikers' movie on h2g2.com - the script and storyboards are being assembled on a houseboat in Islington and Douglas Adams' family are in favour of seeing the project get off the ground. It is currently in pre-pre-production and is being handled by Spyglass films.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1094663

And Neyo, you would definitely get a blast out of the Hitchhiker books. Douglas Adams was a wizard, a Mac fan, and a truly great writer. His books sparkled with humour and were written with loving care. A person could live by the HHGG's philosophy.

Trip: To quote Death from the Discworld...
TRICKERY WITH WORDS IS WHERE HUMANS LIVE.

[Randman]

Audible.com's doing maintenance right now, so I'll have to come back with the links once it's back up, but you can get all four books of the HHGG trilogy read by Adams himself. Great way to spend a few hours is listening to the books, though I must say I thought So Thanks was his best and Mostly Harmless the weakest, though still Mostly enjoyable.