At one point I found myself lying in the middle of a field, a little bit drunk, when it occurred to me that somebody should write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It didn't occur to me that it might actually be me years later. He also founded a multimedia company, Digital Village, which produced the Starship Titanic computer game and an online travel guide inspired by the Hitchhiker's Guide. In August 1996, he told a technology conference in New Orleans that the main problem in adapting the series for film was not special effects. It's the nature of the story, which is picaresque, which translates to one damn thing after another, and another, and another.
Every script has a beginning and a middle and an end.
Adams married Jane Belson, a lawyer, in 1991. Adams is also survived by his mother, Jan Thrift of England. The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.