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Originally Posted by MrMerlin777 And here I thought Arthur Dent was a character in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy......  | That always throws me when I see the title of this book...Douglas Adams must have been familiar. The similarities are too strange.  | From Wikipedia: Quote:
Adams claimed that the coincidence in the book titles was completely fortuitous, and that he had in fact never heard of the book. This was often repeated, but in fact Adams had seen an original seventeenth-century edition of the book less than a year before he wrote the first outline of the Hitchhiker's Guide.[1]
1. ^ Simpson, M. J. (2003). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, First UK Edition, Hodder and Stoughton, Pages 93-94. ISBN 978-0-340-82766-6.
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