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Top 10 books about space travel | Samantha Cristoforetti

The Italian astronaut chooses her favourite extraterrestrial reading, taking in fiction by Italo Calvino and Stanisław Lem alongside reportage and history

Samantha Cristoforetti

02, Sep, 2020 @12:00 PM

From Alice in Wonderland to the Hitchhiker's Guide: top 10 books about mathematics

From Lewis Carroll to Douglas Adams and even Dostoevsky, the imaginative possibilities of numbers have animated some dazzling fiction

Catherine Chung

06, Nov, 2019 @12:57 PM

Hitchhiker’s guide to fixing global heating | Brief letters

Brief letters: Treating flu | Doorstep politics | Douglas Adams | Tea or dinner?

Letters

01, Oct, 2019 @5:08 PM

Douglas Adams was right – knowledge without understanding is meaningless | John Naughton

Supercomputers are solving complicated problems but we often don’t know how

John Naughton

24, Aug, 2019 @4:00 PM

Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition

From Douglas Adams to Oliver Sacks, the standup comedian reveals some of the writers that have helped him try to work out what makes us tick

Robin Ince

17, Oct, 2018 @11:14 AM

Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is back

It’s the biggest thing to happen to the universe since the Vogons blew up Earth. Our writer grabs a babelfish and goes behind the scenes as the space satire returns

Stephen Moss

27, Feb, 2018 @6:16 PM

Top 10 imaginary drugs in fiction

From the mind-bending potion in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Don DeLillo’s cure for the fear of death, these are some of the most potent hits in literature

Jeff Noon

18, Oct, 2017 @9:00 AM

Don't panic! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in line for radio reboot

Show to return to BBC to mark 40th anniversary of its debut and will be adapted from Eoin Colfer’s And Another Thing...

Harrison Jones

12, Oct, 2017 @12:37 AM

Google’s translation headphones are here, and they’re going to start a war | Nigel Kendall

Douglas Adams knew what he was doing – if we find out what other people are really saying it could be disastrous, says freelance journalist Nigel Kendall

Nigel Kendall

06, Oct, 2017 @1:00 PM

Top 10 unlikely romantic heroes in fiction

From the disgusting appeal of Christian Grey to the neglected charms of Shakespeare’s Don Pedro, Jenny Colgan picks her favourite difficult dreamboats

Jenny Colgan

24, May, 2017 @9:12 AM