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12 ways in

• Life and creative practice
• The five-book route
• Radio, cast and performance
• Characters, places and questions
• Screen and adaptation workshop
• Dirk Gently and connections
• Language and unfinished work
• Interactive storytelling and production
• Technology, expectations and evidence
• Last Chance to See
• Papers, editions and recorded voices
• Original MORI invention studio

Same story, 10 ways

1. 1978-03
   Primary Phase / Secondary Phase radio

   Original performed serial continuity, including episodes that do not map one-to-one onto novel order.

2. Distinct manifestation
   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless prose novels

   Five completed Hitchhiker novels authored by Adams; maintain original-work and edition dates.

3. 1981
   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981) television

   Six-episode BBC Two adaptation; actor, design and event details belong to this manifestation.

4. 1984
   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom, 1984) interactive fiction

   Adams/Meretzky game collaboration with puzzles and player state; not a linear audiobook or imported MORI game engine.

5. 2005-04-29
   The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) feature film

   Directed by Garth Jennings, with its own cast, screenplay history and interpretation.

6. Distinct manifestation
   Tertiary Phase / Quandary Phase / Quintessential Phase / Hexagonal Phase radio adaptation

   Later Maggs-associated productions; Hexagonal draws on Colfer’s continuation. Credit adaptation and original authorship separately.

7. Distinct manifestation
   And Another Thing… continuation novel

   Eoin Colfer’s continuation is separately authored; do not label it a completed Adams manuscript.

8. Distinct manifestation
   Starship Titanic game / Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic novelization interactive project and novelization

   Interactive-origin project with a collaborative design team and Terry Jones novelization; not technical evidence of a physical spacecraft.

9. 1987
   Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency / The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / The Salmon of Doubt novels and adaptations

   Two completed novels, unfinished fiction and collected writing; later radio/TV/comics need their own credits.

10. Distinct manifestation
    1985 aye-aye pilot / 1989 radio series / Last Chance to See book / 2009 Carwardine/Fry television follow-up radio, book and documentary follow-up

    Preserve presenters, journey date and medium. Historical species observations do not establish current conservation status.