Comic Relief charity in the UK. The story also appears in some of the omnibus editions of the trilogy, and in The Salmon of Doubt. There are two versions of this story, one of which is slightly more explicit in its political commentary. A novel, Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel, written by Terry Jones, is based on Adams's computer game of the same name, Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, which in turn is based on an idea from Life, the Universe and Everything. The idea concerns a luxury passenger starship that suffers "sudden and gratuitous total existence failure" on its maiden voyage. Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, a character from Life, the Universe and Everything, also appears in a short story by Adams titled "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" which appears in some early editions of The Salmon of Doubt. Published radio scripts Douglas Adams and Geoffrey Perkins collaborated on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, first published in the United Kingdom and United States in 1985. A tenth-anniversary (of the script book publication) edition was printed in 1995, and a twenty-fifth-anniversary (of the first radio series broadcast) edition was printed in 2003. The 2004 series was produced by Above The Title Productions and the scripts were published in July 2005, with production notes for each episode. This second radio script book is entitled The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases. Douglas Adams gets the primary writer's credit (as he wrote the original novels), and there is a foreword by Simon Jones, introductions by the producer and the director, and other introductory notes from other members of the cast. See also Hitchhiking List of characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cast lists "The Last Question", a 1956 story written by Isaac Asimov that inspired Deep Thought Timeline of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy versions Towel Day Notes References Citations Sources External links Official sites (includes information, links and downloads). . . . . Other links 1978 radio programme debuts BBC Radio comedy programmes British radio dramas Comic science fiction novels Novel series Novels by Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) Novels about time travel Fiction about hitchhiking Radio programs adapted into comics Radio programs adapted into novels Radio