HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jsw21124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph S. Walker)
Subject: Comic Book
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:18:07 GMT

The most recent issue of the Comic Buyer's Guide includes a list of upcoming
DC Comics projects.  Included among them was an adaptation of "The Hitchiker's
Guide to the Galaxy."  It's going to be three issues in the Prestige Format
(regular comic-book size, but squarebound and with more durable paper).  It's
not on the schedule yet but should be out within the next year.

CBG did not say whether the adaptaion would follow the movie or the books, or
how far into the story it would go.  DA is not writing it, but he is
supervising the project and has final script approval.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Jazz Walker

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak)
Subject: HHG to ST:TNG
Reply-To: ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 15:53:06 GMT


Here is the complete HHG to ST:TNG script. All parts are in this message.



Article 3525 of alt.fan.douglas-adams:
From: lepome@cco.caltech.edu (Lisa A. LePome)
Subject: Re: dirk gently book
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 22:57:39 GMT

shinosjr@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (John R Shinoskie) writes:

>In article <19923.2520.1040@dosgate> "russell tisseman"  
><russell.tisseman@canrem.com> writes:
>> 
>> Could someone tell me what was going on. It was something to do with
>> changing the future and something to do with a piece of music (I think).

>SPOILERS FOLLOW!!!!










>As I remember, they had to go to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's house and  
>prevent him from writing "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner."  This poem  
>ACTUALLY was by some alien trying to wipe out the world and describing the  
>evolution of man (slimy things did crawl with legs) or something cool and  
>deangerous like that.  That's the general idea as I remember it, but I  
>read it a LONG time ago.  Therefore, no flames, just minor corrections if  
>necessary.  Danke

>	Schnozz


Well, you're close.  My advice is 1) read Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient
Mariner" _and_ "Xanadu" _and_ if you can find it (usually as an editorial
note) a description of how Coleridge wrote "Xanadu", and 2) re-read _Dirk_
_Gently_.  It will be a much more entertaining book if you have the background,
and you may be able to figure things out better.  The above response is correct
except that Dirk and the professor are going back in time to awaken
Coleridge (as apparently someone historically did) from his opium dream
which was the inspiration for "Xanadu".  Until they do this, they are on
a slightly different time line from the one we know.  In fact, the bit
of "Xanadu" quoted in the beginning of _Gently_ is _longer_ than the real poem.
OOPS! replace "Kubla Khan" for "Xanadu" wherever it appears above--I got the
name wrong.  Anyway, if you can appreciate all of the nuances of this book,
you will be prepared for the eagle in _The_Long_Dark_Teatime_of_the_Soul_
which I had explained to me, and have re-read, and I'm still not sure I got
everything.

Good luck!!
Lisa LePome
lepome@alumni.caltech.edu

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: frodo@cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin Wilson Jiang)
Subject: Re: Last Chance to See
Summary: READ IT!!
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 08:00:01 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.031143.9573@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak) writes:
>
>Has anyone read the book Last Chance to See? I am thinking about
>reading it, but want to know is it any good. Is it like a typical
>endangered species book that is very boring or humourous like other
>Adams books? 
>
>-- 
>!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!
>!       "Cogito Ergo Sum - I think, therefore it missed!"       !             
>!           David Polak  ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu            !
>!_______________________________________________________________!

It's bloody brilliant!! Get the book! Read it! I loved it! It's full of
fascinating passages about the endangered species that our intrepid
author and Mark Carwardine, co-author and zoologist, travel around
the world to observe. It's very typical Adams humor, only much more
witty! It hits on some very good points yet doesn't come across as
preachy or condescending (can't you tell I've read the back cover? :).

In any case, I can easily recommend this book to any and all DNA afficionados
and otherwise. A definite must-read!

Cheers
Kev
--
McGill University                       | Kevin Jiang
Alma Mater of William Shatner           | frodo@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
School of Computer Science              | "In the paper today
Montreal, PQ                            |  Tales of war and of waste
Canada                                  |  But you turn right over
"Montreal -- Celebrating its 350th      |    to the TV page"
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From: ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Last chance to see
Date: 12 Apr 92 01:22:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr12.012257.26690
Reply-To: ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, mmckaig@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mindy McKaig) says:

>I about bought this book two months ago, but i was told that it would be
>out in paperback soon. now i can't even find it in hardback!!!! arrrrgh.
>does anyone know if it has been released in paperback in the US yet?
>thanks
>-mindy
>-- 
>

I just bought a copy yesterday -- the hardback version. I asked the 
bookstore person if a paperback copy was available so I could save
money (I have very little of it) and she knew of no plans to release
it in paper at the time, but probably would be eventually. 

-- 
!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!
!       "Cogito Ergo Sum - I think, therefore it missed!"       !             
!           David Polak  ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu            !
!_______________________________________________________________!
From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: The Movie, Series, Towel, Paraphenilia...
Date: 15 Apr 92 07:14:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32945
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us
Organization: The Pen


In article <92105.173047IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO))) writes:
>Ok ok ok, you figure after this much time someone on top of things could
>at least get things under control enough to release The Hitchhiker's Guide
>to the Galaxy on videocassette! C'mon, I thought $$$ was a big drive in
>the world! Don't you think it would sell? I'd buy it.

It >is< out on video, in the UK.

Most of the episodes have been spliced together like a movie, though.

I hear it's supposed to have more scenes in it, but those scenes described
are in the version seen when stations air the series these days (a few years
ago, scenes were indeed missing, though).

-- 
William R Ward						<hermit@cats.ucsc.edu>
	I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
	Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.
					    -- Proverbs 7:17-18
From: "steve waller" <steve.waller@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: last chance to see
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:31:00 EST
Reply-To: "steve waller" <steve.waller@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

>Has anyone read the book Last Chance to See? I am thinking about
MO> To put it shortly: it's brilliant.  Don't miss it.

I've just recently finished reading "Last Chance to See"...as usual
(for DA's books) I roared at times, and couldn't continue reading
(leaving the trail of cologne?????).  On the other hand, I feel that
I learned about endangered animals and the efforts to save them.

I heartily concur...don't miss it...steve
---
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From: jsg@doc.ic.ac.uk (Jake Simon Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHGTTG to be rebroadcast on R4
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:06:41 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.

In article <1992Apr7.181347.6409@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> ees1pj@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK (Peter Jones) writes:
>FYI - A trailer on R4 this evening said that HHGTTG will be rebroadcast from
>Monday 13 April, at 11 o'clock (in the evening I assume).
>
>Pete.

	TRUE,TRUE,TRUE,looking in next weeks radio times does indeed show
the HHGTTG to be on every monday (starting 13th) at 11.00 pm on radio 4,
HOWEVER it appears that they are only showing 6 of the 12 episodes and from
the credits (roosta,frogstar fighter etc) it seems that they are showing the
last 6 (whole second series) which seems a bit daft so dont go getting your
hopes up that you can get both series without paying the 26 quid down
W.H.Smiths !!
	Jake S Gordon.
		jsg@doc.ic.ac.uk

----==== It's not a question of who's habitat it is it's a question of
         how fast you hit it !! ====----
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: cleggp@aix.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg)
Subject: Project Galactic Guide Wants You!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:06:51 GMT

Hi there!  I thought I'd drop by alt.fan.douglas-adams and remind people that
I'm still working on Project Galactic Guide.  However, the Project is currently
suffering from an extreme lack of articles.  If anyone has an article about
something that might be useful (and humorous) to worldly hitchhikers, please
check alt.galactic-guide for writing guidelines, or just send it to me:
      cleggp@rpi.edu

If you've got an utterly fictitious, but absolutely hilarious article, you can
still send it to me at cleggp@rpi.edu--The Guide is allowing both types of
entries, but be sure to indicate if your entry is fake or real.

Thanks for your cooperation!

...Paul

|FQT 1.10| Windows IS NOT a virus...viruses do something.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,news.answers
From: glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us (Glauber Ribeiro)
Subject: Re: dirk gently book
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 00:35:34 GMT

In article <trent.052g@termnet.chi.il.us> trent@termnet.chi.il.us (Brian Issleb) writes:
>
>Wasn't the eagle simply a jet turned into an eagle by Thor?

	Or a jet pilot turned into an eagle by Odin?

						Glauber.

-- 
Glauber Ribeiro - Wheaton College, IL (USA)
  email: glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us
  big files and uuencoded stuff: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu
From: SATELLITE@eldi.epfl.ch (Uncle Alias)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: last chance to see
Date: 10 Apr 92 10:38:49 GMT
Organization: Satellite -- Enjoy!.. -- EPFL Students pub
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.21


	I quite recently read Last Chance to See. It's a very good book, very
much in Doug Adams' spirit, but be warned that 1) it's his first no-fiction
book (to my knowledge anyway, 2) It's his first book written at the first
person (ie "I", not "he").

	If you think wildlife preservation is a boring thing (boo), read this
book!

	"Fire in Harmony!.."					Alias

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From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Oops... WAS Re: The Movie, Series, Towel, Paraphenilia...
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:59:46 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Sorry about that, bit of a cock-up there.
Anyway, as I was trying to say:

In <92105.173047IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO))) writes:

>Ok ok ok, you figure after this much time someone on top of things could
>at least get things under control enough to release The Hitchhiker's Guide
>to the Galaxy on videocassette! C'mon, I thought $$$ was a big drive in
>the world! Don't you think it would sell? I'd buy it.

It IS out on video, as from last month.
(Though I think it's only on PAL, so that doesn't help you much.)

>The same goes for the proposed film...why hasn't anything happened about
>this? Or has it? Is the script just gathering dust somewhere? You'd think
>with all the Douglas Adams fans in the world, even if the film was terrible
>it would at least sell tickets. I'd go.

So would I, but that's not the point.
It's the same situation as the proposed Doctor Who movie:
A film has been in the pipeline for years, but absolutely nothing seems
to be happening.

>Another question, they used to sell a large H2G2 towel you could order
>from Europe. Do they still do this or has H2G2 died down enough that
>it's no longer done? I recently saw an excellent 'Don't Panic' T-shirt
>the other day...didn't buy it, but loved it.

Unfotunately, this towel is no longer on sale.
(Although there's always the possibility that it could be 'resurrected'
to tie in with 'Mostly Harmless'.)

>Any comments on "Mostly Harmless?". This'll be an instant bestseller...even
>if it's written in crayon.

I agree. 
Although whether it ever gets finished is another matter entirely :-)

>Just trying to get some spark going. With only 30 messages in this newsgroup
>today it's a  sad sad sad one.

Come on! It's not _that_ sad...
OK, so things are bit quiet at the moment. So what? 
It'll pick up.
I think...

Daniel.
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Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 22:11:39 EDT
From: <34I54TE@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Gently - DA gets literacy?
              ericsson.se>

In response to Mr. Lif, who said
>Am I the only person to have noticed that he started this in the final HHG
>books?

After doing a ten page essay on Mr. A [whose name has been given as Noel Adams
Douglas - huh?], he claimed he was rushed through the last two books of the
four book trilogy by his publisher.  This must have sprung some basic writer's
instinct, sending him to write 'by the book', or maybe not.  Then, when he
launched into the Dirk Gently novels, he had time to enjoy writing them.
And, since the original Hitchhiker's radio scripts, he was [alas] more grown
up [over 40!] at that time, thus the better construction of the novel.

Oh well, it's just a theory.  And the reason for writing HHGTTG in the first
place?  From DA, "I was lying in a field in Innsbruck, drunk, looking at the
stars, and thought that someone should write a hitchhiker's guide to the
galaxy."  And thus, from the curious effect alcohol has on certain carbon based
life forms [especially the PGGB!!!], the GUIDE was born.

Any other interesting DA quotes or comments from anybody would be extremely
welcome.

Until then, 42.

Sgt. Rock - it's better to rock than to fade away.
From: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten Lif)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams gets Literary?
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:50:13 GMT
Reply-To: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB

In article 14314@willamette.edu, jtilton@willamette.edu (James Tilton) writes:
>Yes, I liked the Dirk Gently books... though not as much as I liked the
>Hitchiker's series (IMHO, the funniest books ever written :) -- before
>Terry Pratchett [maybe]).  My reactions upon reading them were:
>
>"My God!  It's got a Plot!"
>
>It seems to me that Douglas Adams tried to get "literary" with these...
>actually using themes, and symbols, and structure and stuff.

Am I the only person to have noticed that he started this in the final
HHG books? The first two (HHGTTG and TRATEOTU) are sheer anarchistic
madness based on the radio shows. But in LTUAE he starts trying to tie
things together, introducing Haktar the malevolent hyper-computer and
Prak, the man who speaks the Complete Truth. It seems Arthur's paranoia
was justified after all and Haktar was causing it all to move him
around as a pawn to end up at Lord's to throw the Krikkit bomb and Prak
confirms this with his laughing fits over how Arthur has been REALLY
screwed by the Universe.

Then in SLATFATF, he wraps it up by letting Arthur return to the Earth,
explains how come it's still around (so that we can read about it all),
throws in a bit of love interest and, basically, lets the HHG theme die
with Marvin finally feeling good about something just before dying.

Then with DGHDA and TLDTTOTS he goes on to carry the "fundamental
inter-connectedness of things" to its extreme by having everything from
Coke machines to stuck sofas playing roles in the plot.

But as I said, he started that idea in LTUAE. It must have been a lot
harder, though, to create a semblance of purpose to all the lunacy he'd
already written in the first books. With the DG books, he started out
on that idea from the very beginning.

---
 Torsten Lif
 Ericsson Telecom AB, EO/ETX/TX/ZD
 S-126 25  STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
 Phone: +46 8 719 4881
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 16:36:01 EDT
From: <34I54TE@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: HHG to ST:TNG

Applause.  Applause.  Applause.  Standing O!!!!!!!!!   Very nice.  Lately I've
been missing the thrill of reading some new DA (being too lazy to go out and
get LCTS).

Very nice work.  Credit goes to the brilliant author(s).  And to you for
teleporting it to ALT.FAN.DOUGLAS-ADAMS!!!!!

Wow.......
           Most gratefully.  Sgt.Rock--it's better to rock, than to fade away
From: bartlone@gemed (Mike Bartolone 5-4266)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Looking for Erik Soderstrom!!
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:41:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: mr.1992Apr6.144103.8620
Reply-To: bartlone@gemed.ge.com (Mike Bartolone 5-4266)
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee,  WI


I'm looking for Erik Soderstrom from Gotland Sweden. I know this is not the
proper (per netiquette) way to get some one, but this is the only newsgroup
I am certain he reads. 
Erik,	please note the address...the one I gave you in chat is wrong!!

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From: lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Last chance to see
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:54:05 GMT

In <1992Apr12.012257.26690@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak) writes:


>I just bought a copy yesterday -- the hardback version. I asked the
>bookstore person if a paperback copy was available so I could save
>money (I have very little of it) and she knew of no plans to release
>it in paper at the time, but probably would be eventually.

I just bought the paperback here in England, so I guess you do not
have long to wait.

LAWRENCE
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: dwr34397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (37000)
Subject: Re: Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams gets Literary?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:22:05 GMT

zahin@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Kazi Zahin S. Hasan) writes:

>It seems to me that Adams has been playing with "the fundamental
>interconnectedness of all things" and other pseudo-quantum-mechanical
>themes since his earliest books. Recall that the Total Perspective
>Vortex worked by extrapolating the whole of Creation from a small
>piece of fairy cake.

	I'd have to agree with you - it's my theory that one of the main
plots of the book is the whole concept that Zaphod, Trillian, Ford and Arthur
all experienced infinite improbability, and spent the rest of the books 
trying to overcome the improbability field that surrounds them.

	(BTW, there's a reference to this in the trilogy - when they are
in HotBlack Desiato's ship - just after they escape...  I'll find it if anyone
cares...)

					DAVE!!!
					suicide@uiuc.edu
From: lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: dirk gently book
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:55:12 GMT

In <1992Apr12.003534.5070@vpnet.chi.il.us> glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us (Glauber Ribeiro) writes:

>In article <trent.052g@termnet.chi.il.us> trent@termnet.chi.il.us (Brian Issleb) writes:
>>
>>Wasn't the eagle simply a jet turned into an eagle by Thor?

>       Or a jet pilot turned into an eagle by Odin?

>                                               Glauber.

        You're both wrong.  It was a jet AND a pilot turned into an eagle
        by Thor.
                                Lawrence
From: grs01146@runt.appstate.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Douglas Adams DYING?!?!?!
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:56:38 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University




SOMEBODY PLEASE RE-ASSURE ME ..... QUICK!!!!


I asked the manager of my bookstore the anticipated release date of
_Mostly_Harmless_ and she replied that the book would not be released 
due to Douglas Adams contracting a terminal illness...

I can't believe this.  I'm sure that I would have heard it somewhere else 
first if it were true.  But just in case, please let me know what this is 
all about.

thanks

ptSLOAN
"sir dolittle the Knyghte"
grs01146@runt.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina
From: lindq@etek.chalmers.se (Johan Lindqvist)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: dirk gently book
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:21:04 GMT
Reply-To: lindq@etek.chalmers.se (Johan Lindqvist)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN

In article <19923.2520.1040@dosgate>, russell.tisseman@canrem.com (russell tisseman) writes:
|> I read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and there was a piece in
|> the story that I just did not quite get the point. It involves the time
|> machine bit. The main characters went back in time and I think it was
|> the old professor who went to someone's house.
|> 
|> Could someone tell me what was going on. It was something to do with
|> changing the future and something to do with a piece of music (I think).
|> 
|> Thanks for any replies...........Russel


There is a FAQ that deals with this (among other things), but I don't have it here. Could anyone post it, please.


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