May 15, 2001

oh my! Douglas Adams died

oh my! Douglas Adams died suddenly Friday of a heart attack. He was the first author I met in person. I can't believe he died before the age of 50. If you have never read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you really should. It was in the first handful of SF books I read as a kid. It hard to imagine what my teenage life would have been without the Dark Domain, the Austin “can I get 'yall som'um to draaank?” NASFiC with Fred and Bryan, and SF books like hhgg. You really want to celebrate his life, in which he created so many great books, but it sucks too much that he died. Posted by ipaulo at May 15, 2001 08:50 AM