Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was a satirical author best known for The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The story of the guide is mostly available in largely contradictory formats on Amazon.

Douglas Adams began his writing life as a script editor for Doctor Who (the original or “old Who”). He would go on to write a number of Doctor Who stories. Not to mention two episodes of Doctor Snuggles. Doctor Snuggles is sometimes available on Amazon depending on which third-party sellers have put up copies for sale.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Despite being reportedly terrible at actually writing to deadlines, Adams’ was, nevertheless, a significant influence on writers that came after him. This want-to-be author being among them.

Here is a (probably incomplete) list of writing credits for Douglas Adams. Feel free to add any I’ve missed in the comments section. A better list may or may not be found on Good Reads.

• The Private Life of Genghis Khan (1975), based on a comedy sketch Adams co-wrote with Graham Chapman (short story)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1978) (radio series)
• The Pirate Planet (1978), a Doctor Who serial
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) (novel)
• City of Death (1979), a Doctor Who serial
• Shada (1979–1980), a Doctor Who serial
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) (novel)
• Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) (novel)
• The Meaning of Liff (1983 (book), with John Lloyd)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1984, with Steve Meretzky) (computer game)
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) (novel)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts (1985, with Geoffrey Perkins)
• Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (short story) (1986)
• A Christmas Fairly Story [sic] (1986, with Terry Jones)
• Supplement to The Meaning of Liff (1986, with John Lloyd and Stephen Fry).
• The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (1986, edited with Peter Fincham)
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) (novel)
• Bureaucracy (1987) (computer game)
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988) (novel)
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990, with John Lloyd)
• Last Chance to See (1990, with Mark Carwardine)
• Mostly Harmless (1992) (novel)
• The Illustrated Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1994)
• Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic (1997), written by Terry Jones, based on an idea by Adams
• Starship Titanic (computer game) (1998)
• h2g2 (internet project) (1999)
• The Internet: The Last Battleground of the 20th century (radio series) (2000)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future (radio series) (2001) final project for BBC Radio 4 before his death
• Parrots, the universe and everything (2001)
• The Salmon of Doubt (2002), unfinished novel manuscript (11 chapters), short stories, essays, and interviews (available as an audiobook, read by Simon Jones)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) (film)