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From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast (alias Daniel O'Malley))
Subject: Re: Significant Numbers
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:40:17 GMT

In <1992Oct12.100622.15898@chemeng.ed.ac.uk> johnsc@Chemeng.Ed.Ac.Uk (John Currie) writes:

>can i add the number '13' to the great list of important numbers. making the list read as follows:

>42 69 111 3 13

>The reason:

>3+1 = 4
>3-1 = 2
 ^ ^
 3 1

Well, shouldn't it be 31 then and not 13?

And what about the other numbers?
(69 is obvious - but 111? and 3?)

Daniel.
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From: wowbagger@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: An evening with Douglas Adams
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:47:34 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.

In article <1992Oct8.111002.1@geovax.ed.ac.uk>,
msc9309@geovax.ed.ac.uk (Dave Haddock) writes:

> The questions he answered ranged far and wide.

He also talked a bit about his Dr Who stuff - apparently he didn't
want Shada released on video (he didn't think it was a particularly
good script, and was glad the BBC strike screwed up its production!).
However, his agent forgot that he didn't want it released, and Douglas
signed the contract by mistake! He then decided to donate the
royalties to the Comic Relief charity, which made him fell better
about it.

He also talked about the novelization of his Dr Who stories (which I
think somebody mentioned here before). The publishers said they would
only pay him a 600 pounds flat fee for it, Douglas informed them that he
tends to sell a lot of books and wanted rather more than that, but the
publisher wasn't impressed and dropped the whole thing.

About deadlines, and Mostly Harmless being a year late, he made the
excuse that the South Bank Show TV show he took part (which was
suppoosed to coincide with the release of MH) actually prevented him
from getting round to writing it!

\begin{spoiler}
I don't want to give too much away, but Chapter 1 of MH seems to be a
satire on the subject of fault-tolerant systems, beleive it or not, 
and is quite hilarious (at least the way Douglas reads it 8^).
\end{spoiler}

I actually saw him *twice* yesterday, as he also gave a (free!)
lunchtime talk at the Royal Museum of Scotland on his Last Chance to
See expeditions, evolution, and such like, particularly the Kakapo
parrot.

-- 
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From: mjl11@po.CWRU.Edu (Mario J. Latragna)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Mostly Harmless Review (maybe some spoilers)
Date: 13 Oct 1992 16:40:24 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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	Well, after getting the book on Sunday here and ready it
in less then 24 hours, i see that the book isn't the best DNA book
but it has really great potential.

	1.  It kept me laughing.  "For Bob's sake!!"

	2.  it provided an end to perhaps the greatest series of 
		books ever written.  This is good because traditionally
		series get worse as they get longer.

	There are many more and if you want to disagree with me
go ahead, just come up with good reasons.


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From: vaughanm@cs.man.ac.uk (Vaughan Marks)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless - POTENTIAL SPOILER thread (?)
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:16:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: mcramm@dct.ac.uk's message of 8 Oct 92 11:33:19 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.123319.522@dct.ac.uk> mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm) writes:

   Well, I picked up my copy of MH yesterday, and was disappointed. IMHO
   it lacks something of the flavour of the originals. I got the distinct
   impression that DNA is bored with the whole HHG scene and just wants to
   kill it off somehow. The characters from the originals just didn't feel
   right, there was something weird about attitudes and behaviour.

Absoultely! The characters lack their usual flair and witt. MH seems to deal
far more with descriptions and events rather than conversation/ human 
interaction... I'd say MH was mundane, the inside cover was about the best
bit! IHMO the 'trilogy' should have been left well alone. It is a classic,
and any more HH books will only serve to distract from the flair of the
originals.

Comments?
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From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Subject: Re: "Doctor Who - Shada"  US video release information
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:44:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.084007.9531@cs.nott.ac.uk> cczcole@mips.nott.ac.uk (Marlon Cole) writes:
>In article <1992Oct13.020218.28936@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
>|> "Shada," the unfinished Tom Baker (4th Doctor) "Doctor Who" story
>|> written by Douglas Adams is now in video release in America from
>|> CBS/Fox video.  
>|> Much of the material from this untransmitted story was reused and/or
>|> lifted and used in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency."
>|> 
>|> [ other interesting stuff deleted ]
>
>Can you give us (or just me?) a more detailed summary of Shada?  All I've ever heard is that DGHDA
>was based on it - is it closely based or not? I for one would welcome I little plot spoiler :-)
>Any takers?
>
>Cheers,
>	Marlon
>
>------------
>Marlon Cole                  email:  cczcole@unicorn.nott.ac.uk or
>Systems Programmer                   cczcole@uk.ac.nott.unicorn depending.....
>Cripps Computing Centre
>University of Nottingham
>NOTTINGHAM. NG7 2RD

SPOILERS AHEAD FOR SHADA!




Since you asked, sure I will.

Shada is the name of the prison planert of the Time Lords, and one
very special Time Lord in particular is imprisoned there, called
Salyavin, or at least he was....
The key to the location of Shada is somehow contained within a
book called "the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey," which
was stolen from Gallifrey and is currently resting in the posession
of one Professor Chronotis, a retired Time Lord living at the
fictitious St. Cedd's College at Cambridge, using his old TARDIS
as his rooms.  
A mind-control expert and villain named Skagra learns of the location
of the book and comes to Earth to steal it from the Professor,
and at the same time the Doctor arrives to take the book back to
Gallifrey at the Professor's request.
And from there it's all go.  Chases through the streets of Cambridge
eventually end up in Skagra gaining posession of the book and
of the Doctor's TARDIS, and from there Skagra hopes to gain the
location of and admission to the prison planet of Shada and the
release of Salyavin....

Steve/Iain
From: HDKD@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA (HDKD)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: RE: Mostly Harmless Canadian info
Date: 8 Oct 92 01:07:08 GMT
Organization: McGill University

In article <1992Oct7.045353.28370@julian.uwo.ca> hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett) writes:
>
>Hello all,
>
>    I just wanted to let you all in on what I found out today.  I went into
>my campus book store here at UWO in London, Ontario, and asked about the
>status of the new book.  One of the ladies working there is a big fan too,
>and she told me that they have a whole bunch on order, but the Canadian
>printings aren't ready yet.  Apparently they've only printed enough for the
>British market so far.  She expects them to arrive over here near the end
>of October or beginning of November.

Addemdum to this... Myself, I'm in Montreal, and I just got off the
phone with one of the big bookstore in town (Cole's) and I was told
that it is on order and APPROXIMATE (sp?) arrival is th 15th NOV.,
but to give a call at the end of the month, the arrive often earlier.

LEt's rejoice... And PANIC till it gets here...

Serge Ayotte

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Subject: Re: Green Smiling Planet
From: mduhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Matthew Duhan)
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:21:39 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Oct14.205212.16399@husc3.harvard.edu> mduhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Matthew Duhan) writes:
>   Does anyone know where the green smiling planet originated from and why?
>It's appeared on all the HH books, the scripts, etc. and I've always
>wondered where it came from.  The reason I ask this is because I've seen
>a copy of the original HHGTTG book without it.  The cover is a mish mash
>of colors with the title (HHGTTG) in large, friendly letters on the cover.
>I believe the date is somewhere around 1970.  Is this a mutant cover, a
                                          ^oops, 80, not 70 
>Brittish copy, or just an early printing before the GSP was invented?
>Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>Matt          mduhan@husc.harvard.edu
>
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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,rec.arts.books
Subject: Douglas Adams in Palo Alto Oct 31
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:22:47 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Distribution: ba
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Well Douglas Adams is at Printer's Inc. 8 PM on Halloween of all evenings!
Palo Alto store.  More of the Mostly Harmless tour.


So long.
And thanks for all the fish.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
  Scientific Programming
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
Seeking Books to buy:	Bongard, Pattern Recognition
			Imhof, Cartographic Relief Presentation
			Books on or by Benjamin Whorf
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From: millernw@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller)
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless is a paper-back or not? 
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:41:19 GMT

strnadl@tph04.tuwien.ac.at (Christoph F.Strnadl) writes:

>I've followed the thread about MH but failed to see any information
>regarding the fact whether MH comes (right now) as paper-back,
>hard-cover or whatever. Looking at the price tag in the UK (me
>thought 'bout 20 pounds?) seems very much like expensive hard-cover.

	Speaking only for the United States (I've always wanted to do that!)
"Mostly Harmless" is available in hardcover only for $20.00 + tax.  I'm
guessing that the paperback will be out in six to nine months or so.



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From: v089l3s3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeremy B Horwitz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
Date: 17 Oct 92 02:46:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I've always wondered about this book. I purchased the original
Meaning of Liff, which is mentioned in Mostly Harmless' "other
books by Douglas Adams" section, as an English import. I was
told about 6 months ago that DNA had co-authored a sequel,
the "Deeper" Meaning or "Greater" or something of the sort.

My main questions: Is this book (I'm pretty sure it exists)
written by Adams, is the format the same as the original,
how much does it cost and is it worth buying?

Thanks! -> Jer
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From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Subject: Re: Scrabble and Book Signings
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:31:39 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Oct5.110540.836@aston.ac.uk> thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson) writes:
>	And secondly, and slightly more importantly - In a very idle moment
>during the holidays I happened to have a Scrabble board handy, and tried to 
>spell out "What do you get if you multiply six by nine" (mainly to irritate my
>parents, because it was one of those magnetic travel thingies. Anyway - you
>can't. There aren't enough y's in a Scrabble set. Even if you use the blank 
>provided you end up one y short.
>	Oh for a touch of realism, eh? ;-)

Well, as i recall it was a home (planet) made Scrabble set so we can
allow that Arthur may have made a few mistakes.

ObScrabble: Once while on holiday, bored, and missing my computer, I
duplicated the keyboard with Scrabble tiles. Weee!
-- 
    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz  or  thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz
Datamark Intl Ltd | 
 Technical Writer | I don't need a disclaimer, I live in a sane society.
From: John.E.Beebe@dartmouth.edu (John E. Beebe)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless - POTENTIAL SPOILER thread (?)
Date: 13 Oct 92 02:28:00 GMT
 <VAUGHANM.92Oct8161648@n8i.cs.man.ac.uk> 
 <1992Oct9.092231.531@dct.ac.uk> <1992Oct9.110254.28821@bnr.co.uk>  
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <Bw0tJ0.CqJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack) writes:

> Of course, there still is the matter of Zaphod and the Heart of Gold running
> around.  And remember, with an Infinite Improbability Drive running around,
> anything can happen.

Except, of course, that the heart of the drive was stolen by the
Krikkits, and it would seem that Zaphod was shot.....

But then again, I suppose that alternate realities could provide a
solution to that problem....

-John Beebe
"Please feel free to blither now."
From: ajdh@bnr.co.uk (Andrew J D Hurley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Green Smiling Planet
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:35:36 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, Harlow, GB

In article <1992Oct14.205212.16399@husc3.harvard.edu> mduhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Matthew Duhan) writes:
>   Does anyone know where the green smiling planet originated from and why?
>It's appeared on all the HH books, the scripts, etc. and I've always
>wondered where it came from.  The reason I ask this is because I've seen
>a copy of the original HHGTTG book without it.  The cover is a mish mash
>of colors with the title (HHGTTG) in large, friendly letters on the cover.
>I believe the date is somewhere around 1970.  Is this a mutant cover, a
>Brittish copy, or just an early printing before the GSP was invented?
>Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

I believe that is the original cover, certainly that's what's on my
copy. Current versions in the UK have a pattern of four squares with
a different picture in each square.

I have not seen the planet logo on any UK versions of any of the books
(including MH) and therefore believe it comes from the US versions only.

I have a copy of the LP (record) which does have the planet logo but that
is a Canadian import as it was no longer available in this country when I
bought it.

Conclusion the green planet was invented by the US or Canadian (or both)
publishers and has stuck ever since - but not made it back to the UK.


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From: adw@otter.hpl.hp.com (Dave Wells)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:04:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Challenge for Douglas Adams-freaks
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams

From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
>Kevin Charles Rubio (ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
>: I believe that Douglas Adams worked a bit on a radio series called
>: "The Burkiss Way."
>:  
>
>Correct.  The show was "The Burkiss Way to Dynamic Living" featuring a
>host of second-rate comic types and mostly awful skits.

As always, a matter of opinion. I thought much of it was hilarious.
Unusually for Radio 4, Burkiss was fairly surreal, with some
barely-credible attempt being made to link a series of sketches into a
narrative whole. Not unlike Adams' later style, in fact.

One of Adams' sketches was a skit on Eric(h?) Von Daineken's then-popular
books based on the premise that Earth was visited by extra-terrestrials
which were taken for Gods. Von D. is introducing a new book (aimed, as he
explains, at a slightly different market) which proposes that Earth was
visited in the past by a vast horde of fluffy white bunny rabbits ("Should
go down well with pet fanciers"). At this point, for unexplained reasons,
the world ends, and the radio studio is besieged by cosmic aliens and
fluffy white bunnies demanding their cut in the profits on the books.
(Sound like a familiar plotline?). A third, even more rowdy, mob bursts
into the studio"
    "We are the MEEK, and we DEMAND to inherit the Earth!"
(later recycled as the Great Prophet Zarquon, which is almost as funny).

Dave

Narrator: "It was midnight, and the watchman tolled the bell"
Watchman: "Good evening, bell - did you know it's midnight?"
        The Burkiss Way
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From: etxjlar@eua.ericsson.se (Jorgen Larsson)
Subject: Challenge for Douglas Adams-freaks
Reply-To: etxjlar@eua.ericsson.se
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:34:55 GMT

I have just (a week ago) finished reading the four Hitchhiker's books 
(for the first time) and extremely recently (some ten minutes ago) 
discovered this group!
Now I have a challenge for you Douglas Adams-freaks. Can anyone bother to list 
all his other works (in case he has done something else, I don't know...) and give me 
your opinion about them, compared to each other and to the Hitchhikers trilogy 
of four books. 

Jrgen Larsson
Ericsson Telecom AB
Karlstad
Sweden
Europe
The World (Tellus)
The Milky Way
Universe
?
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From: doctor8@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Clay Evans)
Subject: Red Dwarf
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:33:41 GMT

Hello all,

Is there/was there/will there ever be a ftp site where I can pick up Red 
Dwarf quote files/gifs/sounds? Also, where can I FTP some UNIX 
decompress utilities for the PC? So as to save valuable bandwidth, folks 
can email replies at jevans@ius.indiana.edu, 
doctor8@cybernet.cse.fau.edu, or cevans@nyx.cs.du.edu . Of course, so as 
all folks can see this wonderful infromation for themselves, post it here 
as well.

The Doctor
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From: lyford@dagny.webo.dg.com (Lyford Beverage)
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:37:34 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

In article <1b9efeINNbo1@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver) writes:
|> 
|> 	I thought this was perhaps one of the better HHGTTG books, myself.  It
|> was certainly better than So Long and quite probably Life, The Universe, and
|> Everything.  And is it just me, or is this the first time that Adams has had
|> a coherent plot in a book?  A great job.
|> 
|> 						-Jay

I haven't read it yet, but I don't know how a plot could be more coherent or
hold together better the Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.  Absolutely
every word contributed to the story, unlike much of the Hitchiker's stuff
and TLDTTOTS.  I thought that DGHDA nearly reached that level of perfection
in plot and word that is currently only inhabited by the best Wodehouse.  
(The Code Of The Woosters, Leave it to Psmith, The Mating Season, etc.)
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From: jadillin@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN ANTHON DILLINGHAM)
Subject: DNA in NC?
Originator: jadillin@c00559-1403br.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: jadillin@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN ANTHON DILLINGHAM)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:48:39 GMT


Subject line pretty much says it all.  Is DNA coming to North Carolina
area any time soon?  If so Where and when.

Thanks a lot!

BRIAN------------------
<jadillin@eos.ncsu.edu>
From: cokin@aludra.usc.edu (Darren Cokin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Mostly Harmless ending questions (definate spoiler)
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:20:50 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

I bought it yesterday and read the whole thing.  Towards the end it was 
pretty late, and I guess I wasn't reading all that carefull, cause I'm a bit
confused by the ending.  It may be a while before I have time to reread it,
so I just thought I'd ask.

Ok, let me tell you what I think happend, and you tell me how right I am.
The Grebulons destroyed the earth.  This of course is nothing new, it's been
destroyed before.  Only this particular time, Arthor and Trillian happen to
be on the earth at the time of the destruction, so the destruction is 
permanent.  Had they not been on it they would have mucked about time as they
always do, causing there to be another earth.  No the reason the Grebulons
destroyed the earth is that the Vogons used the Guide to make them, in the
same way Random used it to get Ford to land.  But Ford thought he was going
by his own free will, homing in on the old guide.  So, why did the Grebulons
think they were destroying the earth?  How did Trillian know the earth was
about to be destroyed?


                                                     Darren
From: mortel@chose.cam.org (Stephane Lussier)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: New Hitchhiker's Book
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:37:00 GMT
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 > Does anyone know anything about Mostly Harmless?  At a book reading
 >more than a year ago, Adams himself dsaid it would be out soon.  Since then
 I
 # >have heard rumours that it is about to be released, yet have failed to see
 # >anything.  What's up?

Here in Montreal(in Canada), it's due november 15th.  But then again, last
time it was du somewhen in springtime...

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From: mjb@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Michael John Bushnell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Forty-two
Keywords: ASCII
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:40:39 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

Just wondered whether anyone has yet mentioned that the meaning of
life (42) is in fact that ASCII code for multiply (*).

This seems like a pretty logical meaning for life to me.

Mike.