Adams Douglas. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Lost Chapters

The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy spanned numerous formats, from radio to prose, to TV and finally to film in 2005. These are 16 draft chapters that Douglas Adams abandoned in the process of crafting third instalment Life, The Universe and Everything. Writer Jem Roberts unearthed the “new” sections along with unused excerpts from the first novel in a collection stored at Cambridge University, where Adams was educated. The creator was notorious for his influential yet decidedly non-prolific output and was famously locked in a room so he could attempt to meet a deadline. Roberts sheds light on what we might expect from the discovery: "The original version was going brilliantly – he had loads of really funny chapters and scenes – and then he just decided to abandon the whole lot and start from scratch… The book that we know has exactly the same plot. He’d written a version that was about two thirds of the way through before he abandoned it. A lot of people thought it had gone in the bin".