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Entertaining feedback from Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams. (Photo: Getty) It was on this day in 2001, at 49 years of age, that Douglas Adams died. Adams was best known for creating The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a wildly successful project that began in 1978 as a science-fiction comedy radio series and eventually evolved to become something much larger, in many formats and in many languages, adored by many millions of people around the world. This typically entertaining letter, which was actually a fax, was sent in 1992 to US editor Byron Preiss, whose company at the time was producing a comic book adaptation of Adams’…

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