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[[File:DouglasAdams_douglasadams_com.jpg|frame|The hoopiest frood of them all. (1952-2001)]]
▲{{quote| ''"He's just this guy, y'know?"''}}
A British humorist and [[Science Fiction]] writer, most renowned for having written the first five books in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' [[Trilogy Creep|"trilogy"]], the ''[[Dirk Gently]]'' series, and several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories starring the one and only [[Tom Baker]].▼
▲''[[TV Tropes]].org has this to say about Douglas Noel Adams...''
▲A British humorist and [[Science Fiction]] writer, most renowned for having written ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' [[Trilogy Creep|"trilogy"]], the ''[[Dirk Gently]]'' series, and several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories starring the one and only [[Tom Baker]].
A really hoopy frood, he was really fond of deadlines ([[Ridiculous Procrastinator|he liked the whooshing sound they made as they flew by]]) and always knew where his towel was.<ref>Actually, he didn't. That was where the joke came from: he could never, ever find his towel, and figured that it was probably symptomatic of the general disorganization of his whole life. Anyone who actually knew where their towel was, he reasoned, would have to be a really together person.</ref> His interests included evolutionary biology, software technology, Apple computers, the music of [[Pink Floyd]], Bach, and [[The Beatles]], and SCUBA diving. He was involved in a BBC radio production (and then book) with Mark Carwardine called ''Last Chance To See'', where he made his case for the necessity of biodiversity and the need for conservation initiatives. He also considered himself a radical [[Atheism|atheist]], but the "radical" bit was just to show people that he was serious about it (as opposed to merely being agnostic), not because he was intolerant or aggressive. If ever a human being was [[Too Cool to Live]] and [[Too Good to Last]], it was him.
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See the [[wikipedia:Douglas Adams|article]] on [[The Other Wiki]] for more.
* [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
* [[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency|Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency]]
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* [[Author Existence Failure]] (a spaceship suffers "sudden massive existence failure")
* [[Bits of Me Keep Passing Out]]
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* [[Reality Is Out to Lunch]]
* [[Somebody Else's Problem]]
* [[The Alleged Car]] (''[[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]]'')
* [[Zeerust]] (''[[The Meaning of Liff]]'')
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* [[Brick Joke]]: Douglas was infamous for these. It could be several ''books'' before he finally dropped the punch line.
* [[Ridiculous Procrastinator]]: Adams was notorious for turning in scripts late, and during his time as a novelist would often go off to start other projects to get out of finishing the ones with deadlines coming up. It got to the point where his editor took to locking him in a hotel room with nothing but a typewriter when worse came to worse.
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* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Played with constantly in both the ''Hitchhiker'' and ''Dirk Gently'' series.
* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: The trope used to be known as the Arthur Dent, and it is still used as a redirect.
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