in memoriam Douglas Adams

[Amy Z]

Eggplant wrote on the main list:

>I was sorry to lean that Author Douglas Adams, the author of The 
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, died suddenly yesterday, he was 
>only 49. By the way, if you like Harry Potter you'll probably like 
>the Hitchhiker series of 5 books, I highly recommended them.

A hearty second to that.  I love Dirk Gently's Holistic etc. 
also.

Douglas Adams also wrote one of the best pieces of environmental 
writing I've ever read, a book on endangered species and habitats 
called Last Chance to See.  It is written with his usual humor and yet 
is very serious--you wouldn't think someone could pull that off.  
There is a piece on the river dolphins of the Yangtze that has haunted 
me for three years.  It is so sad to think of all the things he might 
have written in the 30 more years he should have had.

Amy Z