Shada - The Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams

Zusatztext Praise for DOCTOR WHO: SHADA "[Roberts] does a great job of maintaining Douglas Adams' voice throughout the story! with his trademark satire and humor firmly in place . . .  fans of Doctor Who will enjoy this little trip back into that world."— Wired.com "[A]n entertaining read . . . and anyone who enjoys both the big heart and boundless silliness of Dooctor Who will be pleased."— io9.com "[S]pectacular. Gareth Roberts has done a remarkable job of channeling the vision of Douglas Adams . . . not only Doctor Who fans will enjoy it! but I think Sci-Fi and Hitchhiker fans will love it as well."— GeeksofDoom.com Informationen zum Autor Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952! and was educated at Brentwood School! Essex and St. John’s College! Cambridge! where he read English. As well as writing all the different and conflicting versions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ! he has been responsible for Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency ! The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ! and! with John Lloyd! The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff . In 1978-79! he worked as Script Editor on Doctor Who . He wrote three scripts for the show: “The Pirate Planet!” “City of Death” [under the name David Agnew]! and “Shada.” Adams died in May 2001. Gareth Roberts was born in Chesham! Buckinghamshire in 1968. His scripts for Doctor Who on television include “The Shakespeare Code!” “The Unicorn and the Wasp!” “The Lodger!” and “Closing Time.” He has also written many scripts for the spin-off series! The Sarah Jane Adventures ! as well as scripts for such television shows as Emmerdale and Randall & Hopkirk [Deceased] . He has written nine previous Doctor Who novels! and lives in West London.  Klappentext The hands of the sinister Time Lord Skagra are unquestionably the wrongest ones possible. Skagra is a sadist and an egomaniac! bent on universal domination. Having misguessed the state of fashion on Earth! he also wears terrible platform shoes. 2 Chris Parsons felt that time was passing him by, and also that time was running out on him. How time could be doing both of these things to him at the same time, he didn’t have time to wonder. For a start, he was twenty-seven. Twenty-seven! Over the years he had noticed a disreputable tendency in himself to age at the rate of approximately one day per day, and now, as he cycled the short distance from his fl at to St Cedd’s College on this unusually sunny Saturday afternoon in October, he could already feel another day heaving itself up onto the pile. The old streets and the even older university buildings, tall and stony with their grey-mullioned windows and effortless beauty, seemed to mock him as he cycled by. How many hundreds of young men had passed through these institutions, studying, graduating, researching, publishing? Now all of them were dust. He’d come up to Cambridge as a fresh-faced grammar-school boy nine years ago, and flown through his physics degree without much conscious thought at all. Physics was the one thing he could do well. Now he was engaged in a long and very occasionally exciting postgraduate struggle with sigma particles. He could predict the exact rate of decay of any sigma particle you cared to mention. But today even Cambridge, which he loved but had come to take as much for granted as the sun rising in the morning, seemed to add to his own inner feeling of decay. He often wondered if there was anything much left to be discovered in his field of research. Or, for that matter, any other. The modern world seemed unrecognisably futuristic to him sometimes. Videotape, digital watches, computers with inbuilt memory, and movie special effects that had made Chris, at least, believe a man could fl y. How could things get any more advanced than that? He pa...

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Adams, Douglas/ Roberts Adams, Gareth Roberts
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.06.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780425259986
• ISBN: 978-0-425-25998-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy