| By: | Logiker |
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| Category: | C64 - C64 Demo - Graphics |
| Released on: | July 6th, 2024 |
| Remarks: | Shown here is "The Cosmic Cutie".. A little green blobby planet thing, nicknamed the “Cosmic Cutie”, with no eyes, a tongue and two sticky-out arms, was used on the U.S. editions of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series of books because of worries that American people might not realise that a series of books with completely different names was actually a ‘trilogy’. Douglas was one of many people who hated the little thing, and managed to ensure that it is not going to appear on any new editions of any of his books. The only tangible relevance that the green thing has with the story itself is an appearance in the BBC TV series, in the section of the Book narrative discussing the population of the Universe. When it is said that the population must be “as near to nothing as makes no odds”, a string of noughts appears (0.000000000…), one of which, momentarily, turns into the Cosmic Cutie, waves, and disappears. |
| Rating: | n/a (Too few ratings)
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| Credits: | Graphics Logiker of Vintage Computing Carinthia |
| Added: | July 16th, 2024 |
| Added by: | Baracuda |
| Downloads: | Don_t Panic.zipLegacy Download
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According to Douglas, the little green blobby planet thing (nickamed the "Cosmic Cutie") has been struck the final blow, and will not be featured on any of the new (American) HHG books. Here's what Adams had to say:
Baracuda @ 2024-07-16 13:51:53"I HATE the little green blob and have spent years locked in arguments with my publishers with me trying to get rid of the obscene little thing. I've finally secured its demise with the new Ballantine editons of the soft cover backlist." Non-American readers are perhaps unaware of this book adornment, as it was only the American publishing houses that determined that without a consistent motif, all of us Yanks would become hopelessly confused by a series of books with different names.
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