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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?"''}}
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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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