The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[ericadawn16]

So, I'm re-reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've read the first book two or three times before but this is the giant compendium of all of them. The thing about Douglas Adams is that he wrote the first book/radio programmes and then shortly, went to Doctor Who so to me the two feel entwined. Adams writes science fiction that gets him DW which means that he influences DW but then, he keeps writing the first series which also influences DW especially the newer writers like Davies and Moffat.

Really, I'm reading the book and aside from the whole Earth being blown up a for a bit...I feel like it's the same universe as Doctor Who which then creates even more possibilities because Adams includes characters like Thor...

I got a big kick out of page 419:

"I see," Arthur, who didn't, "so what do you get for using the name of a perfectly innocent if slightly dull European country gratuitously in a Serious Screenplay?"
"A Rory," said the girl, "it's just a small silver thing set on a large black base. What did you say?"

I don't know if it exists but there should be a fanfic or actual canon where Rory Williams was the namesake for this thing. I'm already kind of wondering if that's where his name came from in the first place. Not long after that is a message written across a mountainside...not in fire and doesn't say, "Hello Sweetie" sadly...

Comments

[ibishtar.livejournal.com]

Haha, I haven't re-read the H2G2 series recently, so I had forgotten about those possible references, that's great! I like to imagine H2G2 and DW being in the same universe too (have you read 'A Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul'? It's all I could think about while watching the Thor movie), so I was irrationally deeply annoyed with Douglas Adams being mentioned by name in the DW novel 'The Eyeless' and DW being mentioned by name in Eoin Colfer's H2G2 sequel 'And Another Thing...'. But when something like that happens I just remember the epilogue to Steven Moffat's short story Continuity Errors and it's all good.

[ayaneva.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to afford Shada. It's hardcover only (as are all BBC DW books) and $27. :(

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I have not read that book series yet, but definitely in the future!

[http://users.livejournal.com/unnecessary_/]

I was given the first book of the series for a birthday A LONG time ago and I have yet to finish it. :(