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

There is also a tongue-in-cheek reference to zebra crossings in the science-fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by English author Douglas Adams, in reference to Man using the improbable creature called the Babel fish as proof of the non-existence of God, the novel says, " Man then goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing.

King and Gould both claim to have been reading Douglas Adams ' comical science fiction novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wherein the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, is ' 42 '.

The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers ( inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe ) written in the form of an encyclopedia.

ŽVPL is an acronym for " Party guide to Ljubljana " in Slovenian, and was inspired by Douglas Adams ' novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-the name for the webzine, not the webzine itself.

It was named for novelist Douglas Adams, because its provisional designation happened to contain the year of his death, his initials, and the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything ( 42 ), as given in his novel serial The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, for example, began as a radio series for the BBC and then became a novel that was adapted to film.

Harmony Books published the first Hitchhiker's novel as a hardback in October 1980.

Horrocks's voiceovers have been used on Chicken Run ( 2000 ), Christmas Carol: The Movie ( 2001 ), Corpse Bride ( 2005 ), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ) and Tinker Bell ( 2008 ) ( in which she was Fairy Mary ; she reprises the role in the Tinker Bell sequels ), and on radio as Fenchurch in the audio adaptation of Douglas Adams ' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for BBC Radio 4.

In The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, she is portrayed by Tali, a model.

In 1993, she married Jay Roach, the director of the Austin Powers movies and Meet the Parents, and producer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

", which she recorded in 1974, was used in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Trillian in the television version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxySandra Dickinson said in an interview in The Making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy that when she heard that she had been suggested for the role of Trillian, she thought it completely mad – Sandra Dickinson was blond and fair-skinned, and in the Hitch Hiker book, Trillian is described as dark and looking " slightly Arabic ".

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* In " Secret of the Oracle ", the Dopefish is mentioned to be the ' second dumbest ' creature in the whole universe, referring to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Lovecraft ( who some say is the original proponent of the philosophy ) and later writers who actually represented the beliefs in books such as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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.

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 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.

He is the only character other than the protagonist, Arthur Dent, to appear throughout the entire Hitchhiker's saga.

In The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy he is portrayed by Tom Finnis.

In Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion it is pointed out that essentially the same idea was used by the English humourist Paul Jennings in an article Ware, Wye, Watford, published in the late 1950s.

In Episode 2 of the webcast version, when Chris is in his lab showing Clare the book, a vending machine-like object in the background is labelled " Nutrimat ", a reference to a similar device in Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Ix, the nickname of Ford Prefect from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, meaning " boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven " ( because he is in fact a " boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.