42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

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THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 60 boxes full of notebooks research letters scripts jokes speeches to-do lists hard drives and even poemsWelcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams. After his death in 2001 Douglas Adamss papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college St Johns. Reproduced here in facsimile form and in close association with Adamss family and literary estate 42 is a full-colour large-format hardback that follows Adams career from early collaborations with Graham Chapman to his work on Doctor Who through the Hitchhiker years Dirk Gently his groundbreaking non-fiction book Last Chance to See and his later digital work. Alongside this are details of projects that never came to fruition like a proposed theme park ride and a TV series provisionally entitled The Secret Empire. Edited by Kevin Jon Davies who has worked on a number of Hitchhiker-related projects and had a personal friendship with Adams spanning more than twenty years.