Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is named for a fictional galactic encyclopedia that one of the main characters works for.

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Other popular and inventive titles included a number of sequels and spinoff games in the Zork series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and A Mind Forever Voyaging.

This release, however, was missing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun because the licenses from Douglas Adams ' and James Clavell's estates had expired.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1984, Steve Meretzky & Douglas Adams )

With the exception of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun, the copyrights to the Infocom games are believed to be still held by Activision.

Five games ( Zork I, Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wishbringer and Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) were re-released in Solid Gold format.

* Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

* May 25 is Towel Day, in tribute to Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

* 1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

Slartibartfast is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy / science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

He adds to this statement in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, an analysis by Neil Gaiman.

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The BBC also aired science fiction comedy series such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) by Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99, 2009 ).

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

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* The Hippocratic Oath – an article by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( h2g2 ).

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, the theorem is invoked to demonstrate the power of the Infinite Improbability Drive that powers a spaceship.

Several characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were also featured, played by the original television series actors.

A television version featuring the character was announced during Hitchcon, the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy convention by Ed Victor, a literary agent who represents Adams ' estate, announced that a television adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was in production.

Mostly Harmless is a novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.

It was the last Hitchhiker's book written by Adams.

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Others were the responsibility of Jim Franklin, known for The Goodies, and two episodes in the second series were directed by Alan J. W. Bell, also known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Last of the Summer Wine.

Its contributions included material for programmes such as The Body in Question, Blue Peter and Tomorrow's World as well as sound effects for popular science fiction programmes Blake's 7 and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( in both its radio and television forms ) by Richard Yeoman-Clark and Paddy Kingsland respectively.

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 the Galaxy.

The phrase has since been adopted by some science fiction fans as a humorous way to say " goodbye " and a song of the same name was featured in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts is a book, published in 1985, containing the scripts for the original radio series version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Ford Prefect ( also called Ix ) is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams.

The first three novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series were dubbed a trilogy, and even after he extended the series, author Douglas Adams continued to use the term for humorous effect-for example, calling Mostly Harmless " the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy.

Joshua D. Angrist and Joern-Steffen Pischke named their applied econometrics toolkit book " Mostly Harmless Econometrics " in the spirit of Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Mostly Harmless.

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