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Dougles died at 49 while working out at a gym on the 11th of May, 2001. Absurd to the end. Despite the Guides most useful
advice, may we panic now? No. More than almost anyone else I can think of,
Looking up into the night sky, Douglas Adams once remarked to himself that someone should write a hitchhiker's guide to the
galaxy. He says that at the time, he didn't consider himself among the candidates.
Good thing for all of us that that idea came to him sometime later.
The Hitchhiker's Guide and the other books in "an increasingly misnamed trilogy" are some of the best loved
books in science fiction. As well as best loved radio drama and computer game.
Douglas Adams had one of those wonderfully inventive minds that could find the absurd in the mundane, clothe it in the
bizarre and present it as at once amusing and revealing.
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