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Douglas Adams
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

2023 |

'Douglas's slanted way of looking at reality makes the fuzzy sharp and the improbable probable. In a cock-eyed universe the level gaze is not much use' STEPHEN FRY'Douglas was something that we don't have a word for yet - a futurologist or an explainer' NEIL GAIMAN"In lieu of a conventional autobiography, this collecti…on of letters, jottings and ephemera - interspersed with heartfelt tributes from admirers including Stephen Fry and Neil Gaiman - will have to serve as the definitive insight into this brilliant man's life and work." Alexander Larman'All your readers have Douglas Adams Circuits in their heads, now: a glowing synaptic lens that has made the whole of space seem like a place as familiar and human as Earth. That makes us approach new tech, and the future, without fear' CAITLIN MORANWhen Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas's long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time.Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with all the information in the world living at our fingertips; sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books; journal entries from his forays into home computing - it is a matter of legend that Douglas bought the very first Mac in the UK; musings on how the internet would disrupt the CD-Rom industry, among others.42 also features archival material charting Douglas's school days through Cambridge, Footlights, collaborations with Graham Chapman, and early scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently. Alongside details of his most celebrated works are projects that never came to fruition, including the pilot for radio programme They'll Never Play That on the Radio and a space-inspired theme park ride.Douglas's personal papers prove that the greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that collide in our own imagination, and offer a captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers. 'Douglas's slanted way of looking at reality makes the fuzzy sharp and the improbable probable. In a cock-eyed universe the level gaze is not much use' STEPHEN FRY'Douglas was something that we don't …have a word for yet - a futurologist or an explainer' NEIL GAIMAN"In lieu of a conventional autobiography, this collection of letters, jottings and ephemera - interspersed with heartfelt tributes from admirers including Stephen Fry and Neil Gaiman - will have to serve as the definitive insight into this brilliant man's life and work." Alexander Larman'All your readers have Douglas Adams Circuits in their heads, now: a glowing synaptic lens that has made the whole of space seem like a place as familiar and human as Earth. That makes us approach new tech, and the future, without fear' CAITLIN MORANWhen Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas's long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time.Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with all the information in the world living at our fingertips; sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books; journal entries from his forays into home computing - it is a matter of legend that Douglas bought the very first Mac in the UK; musings on how the internet would disrupt the CD-Rom industry, among others.42 also features archival material charting Douglas's school days through Cambridge, Footlights, collaborations with Graham Chapman, and early scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently. Alongside details of his most celebrated works are projects that never came to fruition, including the pilot for radio programme They'll Never Play That on the Radio and a space-inspired theme park ride.Douglas's personal papers prove that the greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that collide in our own imagination, and offer a captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers.

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Stav:	nová
Vazba:	Pevná
Počet stran:	320
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1800182686
ISBN:	9781800182684
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	23. 2. 2025 23:42
Číslo položky:	1151196

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noël Adams byl anglický spisovatel, dramatik humoristických rozhlasových pořadů a hudebník, který proslul knižní sérií Stopařův průvodce Galaxií. Tato pětidílná série, jíž se v tištěné podobě vydalo přes patnáct milionů výtisků, byla nejprve uvedena v rádiu, a posléze přepracována do podoby televizního seriálu, komiksové řady, počítačové hry a celovečerního filmu . Knihy se dočkaly také divadelního zpracování v několika provedeních - rané inscenace čerpaly z aktuálních Adamsových poznámek. Jeho fanoušci ho znají také pod jménem Bop Ad, které vzniklo chybným výkladem jeho nečitelného podpisu, nebo pod zkratkou jeho iniciálů, DNA. Kromě Stopařova průvodce napsal nebo se autorsky spolupodílel na třech dílech sci-fi seriálu Doctor Who . Mezi jeho další díla patří romány s hlavní postavou Dirka Gentlyho, dvě knihy Životic, na nichž spolupracoval s Johnem Lloydem, a dokumentární publikace Ještě je můžeme vidět - výprava za vymírajícími živočichy , která vznikla jako doprovod ke stejnojmennému rozhlasovému vysílání BBC. Dal také podnět k vytvoření počítačové hry Vesmírná loď Titanic, která byla později Terry Jonesem převedena do románové podoby. On sám se označoval za „radikálního ateistu“, přátelé a fanoušci ho znali také jako ekologického aktivistu a milovníka rychlých aut, fotoaparátů, počítačů Macintosh a dalších „technických vymožeností". Uznávaný biolog Richard Dawkins zasvětil svou knihu The God Delusion právě jemu a popisuje v ní, jak jeho výklad evoluce vyústil v Adamsovo „konvertování“ k ateismu. Byl nadšeným zastáncem techniky - například o e-mailu a Usenetu psal dávno předtím, než se staly populárními a široce rozšířenými. Ke konci života působil jako vyhledávaný lektor, přednášející o moderních technologiích a životním prostředí. Dne 25. května je na jeho památku pořádán Ručníkový den. Narodil se Janet A...

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