I forgot to add that part of the quality of the work is visible in the sheer number of catchphrases that have entered SF vernacular thanks to Douglas Adams...so long and thanks for all the fish...I have this terrible pain all up and down the left side of my diodes...the whole whale-ground encounter...classic moments that are known to nearly everybody in the genre.
His work will be missed profoundly.
jms
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