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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

How the Hitchhiker’s Guide can make the world a better place | Marcus O’Dair
Douglas Adams’s sci-fi classic has inspired real-life tech innovations. So what else could we rip from its pages to aid our ailing society?
Marcus O'Dair
06, Mar, 2017 @1:02 PM

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency review – Sherlock for the stoner set
Goofy adaptation of Douglas Adams’ cult novel pairs Elijah Wood and Samuel Barnett for a crime-solving caper that over-delivers on quirk
Brian Moylan
23, Oct, 2016 @3:00 PM
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