《银河系漫游指南》是著名英国科幻小说作家道格拉斯·亚当斯所著5本银河系漫游指南系列科幻喜剧系列小说中的第一本,改编自他本人为英国广播公司第四电台所写的广播剧剧本。该书1979年10月12日首次由麦克米伦出版公司出版,次周成为英国图书销量榜冠军,前3个月内销售超过25万本。截至2005年,这本小说已被翻译成超过30种语言在全世界发行,并且被改编为电视剧、电影、舞台剧等多种艺术形式的作品。 …
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to …
Mostly Harmless is a novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It is described on the cover of the first editions as "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy". It was the last Hitchhiker's book written by Adams.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described by the author on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". The book was followed by a sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the …
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk's latest--and …
Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time...Edited and with an introduction by Christopher Cerf, The Salmon of Doubt & Other Writings comprises 50 pages of the late Douglas Adams' unfinished novel, The Salmon of Doubt, along with writings from 3,000 unpublished files stored on his computer harddrive. This collection is …
《最后一眼》,是由道格拉斯·亚当斯及马克·卡沃汀于1990年出版的一本介绍濒危物种的书籍,BBC同名广播剧也是基于这本书籍。 1985年由英国的《观察家》杂志发起,它们决定派遣动物学家马克·卡沃汀及作家道格拉斯·亚当斯前往马达加斯加,寻找一种濒危的狐猴型下目生物──指猴。这个计划后来发展成对全球多个濒危物种的搜索及介绍,当中包括位于印尼科莫多岛的科莫多龙、位于扎伊尔的大猩猩及白犀、位于新西兰的鸮鹦鹉、中国的白鱀豚、罗德里格岛上的罗得里格斯狐蝠及一些其他物种等。大部分的考察均成为日后BBC Radio 4同名节目中的基础内容。 …