OT: There’s a new Douglas Adams book

[Kevin M.]

Some of his friends combed through boxes of unpublished writings from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy author and compiled them into a yearbook-sized tome, one copy of which just arrived on my doorstep this morning. I was looking forward to settling down to read it while enjoying a pumpkin spice pastry purchased yesterday at Porto’s, but the ants beat me to the pastry. Nevertheless, Douglas Adams was one of the greats, and a heavy influence on how I write and, to some extent, how I think. Pleased at the chance to read even a few more words from him. The book is, of course, called “42”, and is available at fine booksellers everywhere. 

[Adam Bowie]

It was funded via crowdfunding, and I was fortunate enough to get along to a launch event at the British Library a few weeks ago. It is indeed a lovely book, with lots of previously unpublished writing.

And a familiar name can be found on page 304 amidst the thousands of funders who paid for their copy in advance :-)

Adam

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 4:52 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

Some of his friends combed through boxes of unpublished writings from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy author and compiled them into a yearbook-sized tome, one copy of which just arrived on my doorstep this morning. I was looking forward to settling down to read it while enjoying a pumpkin spice pastry purchased yesterday at Porto’s, but the ants beat me to the pastry. Nevertheless, Douglas Adams was one of the greats, and a heavy influence on how I write and, to some extent, how I think. Pleased at the chance to read even a few more words from him. The book is, of course, called “42”, and is available at fine booksellers everywhere. 

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[Jim Ellwanger]

There's another familiar name on Page 307.

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[Kevin M.]

Well thanks to all who contributed. I’m enjoying it. 

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[Bob Jersey]

Not for too much off, but used copies are already on AbeBooks (link)     B

Kevin M, to Jim Ellwanger and Adam Bowie, Oct 21st:

[Kevin M.]

I try to not buy used copies of books that are new (or even older books still in print) if I can avoid it. I prefer for my money to go to the content creators as much as possible. 

I’m about 1/4 of the way through the book so far. The content is quite enjoyable: short essays, sketches, poems/songs, and other randomness from Adams, along with “letters to Douglas” from his friends (the Stephen Fry one was perfection). My one bit of constructive criticism is the book is either not professionally typeset or not typeset very well, which, considering how pedantic Douglas Adams was about fonts, spacing, kerning, etc., is a bit disappointing. But it’s a small criticism considering the substance of the book. 

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