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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Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

In interviews that can be found in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

He would later rejoin the Hitchhiker's Guide by lending his voice to the " Ecological Man " and the " Zirzla Leader " in Fit the Twentieth of the Radio Series, while Geoffrey McGivern, who had originally played the character on radio, returned to the role of Ford.

Hawkins was the original voice for the character of Frankie Mouse in the fourth radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, originally broadcast in March 1978.

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.

* Software author Adam N. Rosenburg in his blog " The failure of the Digital computer ", has described the current state of programming as nearing the " Software event horizon ", ( alluding to the fictitious " shoe event horizon " described by Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book ).

* In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a series of books by Douglas Adams, towels are described as " about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have ," an example usage being to ward off the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, she is described as follows: " She was slim, darkish, humanoid, with long waves of black hair, a full mouth, an odd little knob of a nose and ridiculously brown eyes.

It is described in Keen 4 as " the second-dumbest creature in the universe " ( a reference to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the dumbest ) with thought patterns that go " swim swim hungry, swim swim hungry ".

* 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 ".

In 1991, Theo Clarke's review of Humbug in Strategy Plus magazine described it as the " most entertaining text adventure that I have played since Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy back in 1984 ".

The title derives from a joke early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety, of the word " Harmless ".

Concurrent to these events, Ford Prefect discovers that during an update of the " Hitchhiker's Guide ", his previous entry for Earth, " Mostly harmless ", has been replaced with the volumes of text he wrote during his research.

Instances of compulsory acquisition in literature and films include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where first Arthur Dent's home is acquired for the building of a bypass road and then the Earth is acquired ( demolished ) to make way for a hyperspace bypass ; and The Castle, an Australian film, where the Kerrigans ' home is sought to be acquired to allow for an airport extension.

TDV produced the video game Starship Titanic, and started h2g2, a community site dedicated to producing what is referred to as the Earth edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, the Earth is destroyed by a Vogon Constructor Fleet to make room for a hyperspace bypass.

The story culminates with the revelation that one of the personalities has escaped and headed off into Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, which is where Arthur and Ford Prefect were picked up by the Heart of Gold a fraction of second before they perished ( and just minutes after they had been rescued from the demolished Earth in the same sector ), in the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide TV series, one Altairian " long way " is equal to 37 Earth miles.

The plot device of having Bender's head being lost for many years on Earth while the rest of the crew returns to their own time also alludes to " Time's Arrow ", a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, and to the robot Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, who is left waiting for his masters for millions of years until the end of the Universe.

* In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Earth, as well as other planets, were artificial megastructures.

In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, by Douglas Adams, the entire Earth is portrayed as programmable matter ; a computer designed to find the question to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

The plot, in which Earth is destroyed by cosmic bureaucrats doing routine maintenance and the sole human survivor goes on a quest to find the " Definitive Answer to the Ultimate Question ," bears some resemblance to the later Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, first launched as a radio serial in 1979.

Arthur discovers that the entry for " Earth " in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which formerly had been edited down to " Mostly Harmless ," has been replaced, with Ford's original full version.

Notably, in the latest Hitchiker book, And Another Thing ... by Eoin Colfer, the dream sequence the Hitchhiker's Guide Mk. 2 puts Trillian into involves the Babel Fish teleporting her and the other main characters away from the destroyed Earth to Milliways, similar to one of the endings.

ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha is the official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Appreciation Society, and is named after the Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha where Earth can be found according to the book.