>Forwarded from: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S >#911 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5/15/01 > >ATHEIST AUTHOR DOUGLAS ADAMS DIES AT 49 > >Douglas Adams, the author of the popular science fiction comedy "The >Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy," died last Friday night of a sudden >heart attack in Santa Barbara, California. He was 49. Adams, a >graduate of Cambridge University, had begun his professional literary >career as a script editor at the BBC, which in 1978 aired his "Hitch >Hiker's Guide" as a satiritcal adventure yarn about a group of >interplanetary travellers. The series opened with the planet Earth >being marked for destruction in order to make way for an interstellar >highway. The book inspired a number of sequels including "The >Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and "So Long, and Thanks For >All the Fish." > >Adams was a frequent lecturer on issues related to science and >technology. He described himself as a "radical Atheist," and spoke at >the national convention of American Atheists held in April, 2000 in >San Francisco on the provocative topic, "Is There An Artificial God?" >An interview conducted by Dave Silverman can be found at >http://www.americanatheist.org/win98-99/T2/silverman.html One way or the other, he knows the answer for sure now! And I don't mean "42" . . . ;-) -- Ronn! :)
