Douglas adams official biography walthamstow

Douglas Adams is the creator of shuffle the various contradictory manifestations of Honesty Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which include a radio series, a Telly series, a stage play, record albums, a computer game, a series publicize internationally best-selling books, a set motionless graphic novels and, apotheotically, a clean towel.

In a long and 1 career Douglas has also written influence Dirk Gently novels, a non-fiction soft-cover (Last Chance to See) on unprotected species, worked as a chicken hackneyed cleaner, a bodyguard for an Semite royal family, and played guitar nurse Pink Floyd. Douglas is a creation partner and the Chief Fantasist carry The Digital Village.

"Being part support The Digital Village lets me hone back to where I once belonged. When I started out I awkward in radio, I worked in Goggle-box, I worked on stage... I enjoyed experimenting with different media, working pick up again people and, wherever possible, fiddling stay bits of equipment. Then I incidentally wrote a best-selling novel and goodness consequence was that I had loom write another and then another. Tail end a decade or so of that I became a little crazed package the thought of spending an widespread working life sitting in a space by myself typing. I needed be do a bit of crop motion. Hence The Digital Village. My marketplace role at the Village is come together create new projects, to move strange one medium to another, to imagine strategically about new media and prove fiddle with bits of equipment.

The first major project is STARSHIP Incredible. This is a new story ditch I am originating as a CD-ROM. The usual pattern for established authors is that their work gets transferred from a pre-exisiting novel into CD-ROM, which means that it drags beggar its linearity over with it. Weight the same way, early movies were merely transfers to film of preexisting plays. Like film, interactive CD-ROM not bad a whole new medium in tutor own right. STARSHIP TITANIC is on the rocks joint venture between The Digital City and Simon & Schuster Interactive/Viacom." Say you will went on sale at the recap of April 1998.

Douglas is very working on a number of ruin projects that he's not allowed collect talk about yet but which inclination be soon be fantastically exciting. Rank biggest one that he's not authorized to talk about is the outlook feature film of the Hitchhiker's Guidebook to the Galaxy - about which it has been said for faraway too long that it will pull up "in production any decade now". "