Random Things Tours: 42 Wildly Improbably Ideas of Douglas Adams edited by Kevin Jan Davies

 

For the lovers of The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy, 42 Wildly Improbably Ideas of Douglas Adams reveals to the public for the first time since the passing of the author completely novel ideas, memories and notebooks. Edited by Kevin Jan Davies, a long-time collaborator, the book opens with a foreword of Stephen Fry with whom he shared the passion for latest technology and high-smart tech. At the death of Adams, in 2001, we were far from the current social media and high-tech outburst and he would have been delighted to be part of this new world in the making, mentions Fry.

The book outlines important moments in the life of Douglas Adams: notes, diary entries, poems, photographs etc. The archives, many of them handwritten, are based on the documents inclulded in the almost 60 boxed recovered upon the author´s death. Published in this edited version for the first time, they provide valuable details about Adams´ life and career but also about the environment where this important thinker grew up and created. 

Published with annotations and explanations for the reader, the book can be also used as an example of memoir and memorialistic documents in general. 

Rating: 4.5 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own