Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe carry a towel. Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy One Thursday lunchtime the Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio. Visit Amazon.co.uk's Douglas Adams Page and shop for all Douglas Adams books. Check out pictures, bibliography, biography and community discussions about Douglas Adams A guide that is added to, updated and revised by the people who use it, founded in 1999 by Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams. 1727 quotes from Douglas Adams: 'I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.', 'I love deadlines. I love the. In my experience, readers either love Adams' books or quickly put them down. I, for example, quite literally worship the words Adams puts on the page, and have read. Douglas Adams – one of the most celebrated and beloved humorists of the 20th century – had an imagination that defied gravity and soared past Earth's. Douglas Adams; Born: Douglas Noel Adams (1952-03-11) 11 March 1952 Cambridge, England: Died: 11 May 2001 (2001-05-11) (aged 49) Montecito, California, U.S.