Happy Towel Day! (Sunday June 25th May, 2014)
In honour of Towel Day on Sunday, Harper Collins have let us know about a new biography of Douglas Adams they are publishing later this year, which will include all new, never previously published material.
Author J L Roberts has been given full, exclusive access by the Adams estate to the collection of papers donated to Cambridge University after Douglas Adams’ death, and they are permitted to include some of it in this biography, The Frood.
To include:
• An alternative original pitch for Hitchhiker.
• Lost rough script for TV series 2.
• Cut extracts from first H2G2 novel, ‘The Dentrassi’ and ‘Arthur’s Reverie’.
• Extracts from a ‘lost’ draft of Life The Universe and Everything (a 3/4 complete book which was abandoned)… including ‘Arthur Dent’s Diary’, ‘Marvin Meets His Destiny’, ‘The Consultant’, ‘In The Beginning’, and ‘Inter-Species Sex’.
• Further scraps of unused material, with names like ‘Baggy The Runch’ and ‘The Assumption of Saint Zalabad’.
