![]() ![]() In a wonderful twist in keeping with the book’s opening premise of Earth being demolished to make way for a motorway, the Innsbruck field has since been paved over to make way for a stretch of autobahn.ģ. Adams famously came up with the need for a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk and poor in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, while backpacking around Europe before going to university.Ģ. ![]() Do you know where your towel is? Then we’ll begin. The answer to life, the universe and everything might be 42, but have we figured out the question? Over the four decades that the novel has existed, all sorts of trivia has emerged about it. It’s cherished by children and adults alike, as much for its cheering qualities – Adams was clear that one had to write about the future positively, in order to avoid ending up in Blade Runner – as for its author’s boundless inventiveness and wit. Originally written as a BBC radio series, Adams then wrote it as a novel, a 1981 TV series, stage play and record, adding and removing details each time, with a computer game following in 1984, and further books rounding out a five-book “trilogy”. ![]() The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams’s gloriously funny, inventive and chaotic story about a human fleeing to space with an alien friend to avoid dying on Earth, has had as many reinventions and retellings as the Guide. ![]()
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