kelem@AEROSPACE@sri-unix.UUCP (09/26/83)
From: kelem at AEROSPACE (Steve Kelem) re: request from ucivax!bork%uucp.UCI@Rand-Relay (Dave Godwin, UC Irvine) All three of Douglas Adams' books have been out in paperback for at least a few months. Note that the further you get in the story, the more divergence there is between the books (3 volumes), the tv series (6 episodes), and the radio series (12 episodes). (All have been written by Douglas Adams.) The tv series and the first six episodes of the radio series covers most of the first two books. The second six episodes of the radio series covers the third book and then some. Adams said somewhere (I forget where) that he swore on his father's grave that he wouldn't write the 2nd book, but he wrote it anyway. Then he swore on his grandfather's grave that he wouldn't write the 3rd one. I think he found somebody else's grave on which to swear that he wouldn't write any more in the series, but the end of the 3rd book and the 12th radio episode hint at more to come.