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The Unknown Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Prequel You've Already Read

Seven years after his death, an unfulfilled idea of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy creator Douglas Adams is about to come to fruition, as the BBC prepares to bring unlikely detective Dirk Gently into the Hitchhikers universe in a new radio series. This strange move is a result of creative frustrations that led Adams to consider changing the unfinished third Dirk Gently novel (following on from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul) into a book from the Hitchhikers series. More »

10:20 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,623 views, 30 comments

Latest by JennaW, Internet Tough Girl: @MonkeyT: Everyone! TO THE YOUTUBE!!!!! more »

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Now You Can Have the Real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the most indispensible form of technology is the Hitchhiker's Guide itself, a pocket computer containing information (some of it wildly inaccurate) about every place in the galaxy. Now the good people at Instructables have a posted a cool project that lets you create your very own Guide — just get crappy old handheld PC, stick Linux on it, and fill it entirely with Wikipedia. Presto, your own somewhat-inaccurate computerized guide to everything in the galaxy. Don't forget your towel! [Instructables via Hackaday]

9:37 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,705 views, 20 comments

Latest by TommySez: @seldon452: Luckily, I do indeed have one and may well try it. Sweet machines, those Psions. more »

sf visuals

Sci Fi Must Be Pretty Above All?

Never mind the quality, dig the visuals. That's the sentiment being expressed over at Warren Ellis's Whitechapel message board, where fans are talking about the films that may not be very good, but are still very watchable. What are their suggestions for what looks great but ultimately tastes less so? More »

1:11 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,735 views, 49 comments