Starship Fonzie - Podcast Transcript Aug 10, 2024
I’m going to begin this podcast with a salute to a great man who passed away 23 years ago on the 11th of May, 2001. Douglas Adams, whose full name was Douglas Noel Adams, meaning his initials were DNA, which was something he was especially proud of, was a gentle giant of a man (he was six feet, five inches tall). And he deserves to stand alone in his own special category in the same way Ray Bradbury and William Gibson do. He was the greatest sci fi humorist of all time, and that’s not hyperbole. When you think of humorous sci fi, what immediately comes to mind? If you Google “humorous science fiction,” Hitchhikers’ Guide is everywhere. If you look at the Goodreads ranking for the greatest humorous science fiction, the first 6 or 7 items on that list are all Douglas Adams. Then you finally get down to some other writers like Jasper Fforde, or John Scalzi, or Kurt Vonnegut. Douglas was a soft and giddy soul who loved nothing more than a good story, good food, and a good joke. But he