Earth is about to get unexpectedly demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. It is the final straw for Arthur Dent- he is already had his house bulldozed this morning. But for Arthur, that is only the beginning...In the seconds before global obliteration, Arthur is plucked from the planet by his friend Ford Prefectand together the pair ventures out across the galaxy on the craziest, strangest road trip of all time.
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK, and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London,before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001. After Douglas died, the movie of Hitchhiker moved out of development hell into the clear uplands of production, using much of Douglass original script and ideas. Douglas shares the writing credit for the movie with Karey Kirkpatrick.