Salmon of Doubt

I’ve just finished reading The Salmon of Doubt. I’m not much interested in unfinished novels, but it was great to read some Douglas Adams one more time — and actually, the bulk of the book is a collection of magazine articles, newspaper articles and interviews.

The annoying thing is there’s not going to be any more, what with him being dead and all.

I’m so glad I saw him speak. I thought it was at the Turing 1990 Colloquium, 6 April 1990, held at the University of Sussex campus (which I went to and got the t-shirt). But it looks like it was actually the Computers And Writing conference, also held on campus on 23 March 1991.

I don’t think I would have gone to that conference, but I guess I would have found a way to get in to see Douglas Adams talk. From what I remember Adams was supposed to talk about user interfaces, but twisted it into something from Last Chance to See. And yes it was very entertaining