It's time to talk Douglas Adams as Luke picks the BBC 4 adaptation of Dirk Gently. For the Minute Physics video on Time Travel head here - • Time Travel in Fiction...
I had occasion to talk to Douglas Adams's secretary on the telephone at some point, and I said to her that my favorite urban legend was that, supposedly, urban legends are all started by Douglas Adams and his friends sitting around in a pub talking loudly and seeing how long it takes for what they say to spread around the world. (I forget where I first heard or read that.) She said "Douglas will find that funny! I'll talk to him and see how he responds". And of course then he died before I got an answer. So here's another story with a better ending:
There are two books that I originally failed to understand and disliked, that I later re-read and better understood and then loved. The first was Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and the second was The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. In both cases I was just too young on first reading (30 years ago) to grok some important references to books I hadn't yet read. As much as I love Douglas Adams I have to rank him the second greatest British sci-fi humorist author after the duo "Grant Naylor". With both of them the books were far superior to any other medium.
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I had occasion to talk to Douglas Adams's secretary on the telephone at some point, and I said to her that my favorite urban legend was that, supposedly, urban legends are all started by Douglas Adams and his friends sitting around in a pub talking loudly and seeing how long it takes for what they say to spread around the world. (I forget where I first heard or read that.) She said "Douglas will find that funny! I'll talk to him and see how he responds". And of course then he died before I got an answer. So here's another story with a better ending:
There are two books that I originally failed to understand and disliked, that I later re-read and better understood and then loved. The first was Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and the second was The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. In both cases I was just too young on first reading (30 years ago) to grok some important references to books I hadn't yet read. As much as I love Douglas Adams I have to rank him the second greatest British sci-fi humorist author after the duo "Grant Naylor". With both of them the books were far superior to any other medium.