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Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia II - Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams's works

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on audio and video: The original 12 radio episodes (from 1978 and 1980) are available in CD sets from BBC Audio (as The Primary & Secondary Phases), as well as on a single MP3-CD. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was the first radio series released on Compact Disc and on MP3-CD, respectively, by the then BBC Radio Collection. The three additional phases adapted from the last three books in the series are available from BBC Audio. The Tertiary Phase was broadcast on BBC Radio 21 Septe ...

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The Answer to Life the Universe and Everything - Story lines

Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia - Babel fish

The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator. It appears as a "small, yellow and leechlike" fish. When a Babel fish is inserted into the ear canal it allows the wearer to "instantly understand anything said... in any form of language." This was both a useful plot device for Adams, who wrote on the subject that he always found the ability of all aliens to speak English very strange; and also the s ...

Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia - Arthur Dent

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. According to some reviewers, Dent resembles a Vonnegut hero. Along with Ford Prefect, Dent barely escapes the Earth's destruction as it is annihilated to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur spends the next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle. He rather enjoys tea, but seems to have trou ...

Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia - Zaphod Beeblebrox

Zaphod Beeblebrox is a fictional character in the various versions of the humorous science fiction story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. This character is described across all versions as having two heads and three arms, though explanations of how he came to receive the extra appendages differed between versions. The original radio version never explained the second head, but did explain that Zaphod "grew" the third arm in the six months between meeting the character of Trillian on Earth, and the s ...

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Zaphod Beeblebrox - Other uses

Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia - Comic novel

A comic novel is a work of fiction in which the writer seeks to amuse the reader: sometimes with subtlety and as part of a carefully woven narrative, sometimes above all other considerations. One of the most notable British comic novelists is P.G. Wodehouse. Other, more contemporary authors of this ilk include Martin Amis, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Ben Elton. Notable American comic novelists include Hunter S. Thompson, John Kennedy Toole, Joseph Heller and Terry Southern. ...

Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia - Vogon

The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams: Here's what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, s ...

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Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia - Babel Fish website

Babel Fish is a web-based application developed by AltaVista (now part of Yahoo!) which machine translates text or web pages from one of several languages into another. It takes its name from the Babel fish, a fictional animal used for instantaneous language translation in Douglas Adams' novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The translation technology for Babel Fish is provided by SYSTRAN, whose technology also powers the translator at Google and a number of other sites. It can translate among English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, I ...

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Babel Fish website - An example of Babel Fish translation and its flaws

Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia - Aurora Colorado

Location of Aurora in Colorado Aurora is Colorado's third-largest city. The municipality is split between Arapahoe and Adams County, with a small portion lying in Douglas County. The city and its western neighbor are the principal cities of the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 276,900. Current estimates (2005) place the city's population at around 300,000. In 1891, Donald Fletcher founded a town on the plains east of Denver and named it after himself. The r ...

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Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia II - Labyrinth game - Brainstorming with Douglas Adams

Back before the film, Labyrinth, came out, Lucasfilm Games was offered the opportunity to do a game based on it. Since the film was produced by Lucasfilm, this wasn't too much of a surprise, except it was the first time Lucasfilm Games actually did a game based on a film. It was decided that a team would fly to London for a week of brainstorming on the design. There they'd meet with Douglas Adams. Members of the team included Steve Arnold (Lucasfilm Games General Manager), Brenda Laurel (Activision producer), Charlie Kellner (Lucasfil ...

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