Neatorama » Chris Irvine http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at 30 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/12/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-at-30/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/12/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-at-30/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:26:27 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/?p=26837 Although the story was first composed as a radio script, the novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published 30 years ago today. Fans in Britain are marking the occasion by wearing dressing gowns and carrying towels. Chris Irvine writes in The Daily Telegraph:

Hitchcon’09, the fans’ convention at the Royal Festival Hall contained a spacesuit worn by a Vogon, the galactic galaxy’s bureaucrats notorious for their aggressive manner and terrible poetry, as well as Adams’ bath, where the author, who died in 2001, claimed to have some of his best ideas.[...]

The Hitchhiker books began as a Radio 4 comedy show in 1978. Adams then adapted the radio series to create the initial book, completing four more instalments over the next 20 years. He died of a heart attack in 2001, which writing The Salmon of Doubt, published post humously.

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