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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase Audio Book
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase
Authors:
Douglas Adams and BBC Radio
BBC Full Cast Production, including Douglas Adams
Audie Award winner and Audiobook of the Year 2006! This all-new radio dramatization matches the zany brilliance of the original radio shows, which became cult classics. Tour (and save) the universe with Earthling Arthur Dent and his pal Ford Prefect. Script based on Adams' book, Life, the Universe, and Everything. Winner of a 2005 Listen Up award from Publishers Weekly. "Will have listeners glued to their CD players... uproarious."—Publishers Weekly
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Publish Date: 04/01/2005
ISBN: 9781572704695
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Director Dirk Maggs reunited the original cast of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show for this adaptation of Douglas Adams's LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING, the third book in the Hitchhiker's series. Using clever audio sampling, both the original (and now deceased) radio voice of the Guide, Peter Jones, and the late Douglas Adams himself (as the vengeful, multiply-reincarnated Agrajag) also take part in the six-episode production, which was broadcast on BBC Radio, and now collected here.
In this wacky science fiction adventure, dressing gown-clad Englishman Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, an alien from somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, finally escape prehistoric Earth. Naturally, they are almost immediately faced with a new problem, an army of homicidal, cricket-playing robots seeking to free their masters, an imprisoned race of xenophobes determined to get rid of all other sentient life in the galaxy.
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The award-winning author of the definitive guide to slogging around in outer space, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, was born and raised in Cambridge, England. While studying English at St. John's College, Cambridge, Adams began to write, perform in, and direct stage plays. Through this experience he got a job as a script supervisor on the influential cult TV show, DR. WHO--Adams also said that he worked as everything from a chicken shed cleaner to a bodyguard. In 1978 he wrote what many still consider his best work, the science fictional satire that became the original BBC radio series, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE....The record album of that first series, as well as the second series, won awards from the British Science Fiction Association in 1979, 1980, and 1981. Following THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE... radio series, Adams adapted his scripts and produced the first novel of what was originally intended as a trilogy, though it eventually stretched to five novels and a short story. With the publication of the fourth book in the "trilogy," and with his subject matter becoming simultaneously more environmentally aware and much darker in tone, Adams arrived at two important themes of his later work--ecological concern and a more pervasive sense of pessimism. He explores the first theme in his non-fiction account--co-written with Mark Carwardine--of traveling to see the last surviving members of various endangered animal species around the world. The second theme, addressed in the Dirk Gently series, delved more fully into the defects of the human condition, although a sense of comedy remained. Adams returned to finish up the Hitchhiker trilogy with a final, fifth volume. Following that, Adams, a longtime fan of Macintosh computers, developed several CD-ROM games, based both on his own published novels and on original ideas--one of the latter, STARSHIP TITANIC, was novelized by Adams's friend, Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones. Adams married Jane Belson on November 25, 1991 and the couple had a daughter, Polly Jane--nicknamed "Rocket"--on June 22, 1994. He died of a heart attack on May 11, 2001, only two days after Asteroid 18610 (which had been discovered in 1998) was officially named Arthurdent, in honor of the main character in THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
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