![]() ![]() It was on a planet orbiting this unregarded sun, in the year 1952, that Douglas Noel Adams was born. Credit: Michael Hughes – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Mostly Harmlessįar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. In the video today, we’re thumbing a ride into the past to explore the life of the man behind a literary legend. ![]() Yet even in this intensely vibrant age, Adams still managed to dream up a universe so unique it has arguably never been equalled. It was the era of the Beatles and Pink Floyd, of Monty Python, and Doctor Who. And the author behind the book we here at Biographics would send as our emissary to the stars? Douglas Adams.īorn in the 1950s, Adams was the product of a post-war Britain exploding with creativity. We’re talking, of course, about the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps one of the most unique pieces of sci-fi ever written. ![]()
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