Tl;dr: Neil Gaiman on Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhikers…”

One of our current sci-fi-literary heroes writes about the former sci-fi-satirist-literary hero.

Open access and anecdotes and palimpsest galore about all of it.

Especially the game. The game was amazing. Thank you world for letting me relive the impermeable mystery of that command line opening scene.

Also, this year I will toss up a few notes on every title I open (aka “read”).