This instalment of the Dalek Game is for Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which has given me much good advice for life and is probably the reason I just now almost got buried by a pile of towels tipping out of the linen cupboard. I wish I could say I grew up with it, but we didn’t have television growing up and could only receive the local ABC radio station which played The 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race (“Gosh!” said Edward) instead. My father taught me a lot of the Goon Show from memory, but Hitchhiker’s was missing from his repertoire, so I only met the books when I went to college.
John Martz on Picture Book Report did some beautiful Hitchhiker’s Guide illustrations. My favourite is here: It begins with a house.
Edited to add: Nodwick dot com points out this wonderful actual Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Daleks on YouTube.
August 3, 2011 at 7:28 am
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August 3, 2011 at 9:14 am
LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. Also love ‘Panic’ on the cover. Also love the link!
August 3, 2011 at 9:15 am
Douglas was a genius and this illustration brings both his books and his time as a scriptwriter for ‘Doctor Who’ together. Lovely. He would have been very amused.
August 3, 2011 at 2:10 pm
VERY clever. I never knew Douglas Adams but I would think he would have really enjoyed this too. (And if I ever see a Dalek I too will panic as per the “Hitchhiker’s Guide” cover!!)
August 4, 2011 at 8:17 am
The alternate title for the book would be “OBEY!”
August 6, 2011 at 11:59 am
Thank you all! This is so much fun and I love getting to blend in all my (and everyone else’s) favourites!
October 21, 2011 at 11:16 am
there actual is a you tube
video called the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Daleks.
October 22, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Oh, I’ve seen that! It’s brilliant!
October 21, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Surely it should be ‘The Dalek’s Guide to the Universe’?
The entry for Earth: “Mostly harmless. Destroy! Destroy! DESTROY!!”
October 22, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I did do the Dalek’s Guide to the Galaxy, but it was not quite so in character.
October 23, 2011 at 10:24 am
LOVE.
Can I buy prints? I totally would.
October 23, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Thank you!
I’m sorting out the copyright/trademark background at the moment – if I can sell prints I will!