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For anyone who's interested, there was a book a few years ago called The Frood by Jem Roberts: if you've already read the other two Adams biographies (Hitchhiker + Wish You Were Here) it can be easily overlooked, but it's subtly different; not really another biography at all, but rather an exploration of the

Interestingly, apparently Adams' main contribution to the comic was his adamant refusal to allow them to update/Americanise the reference to "digital watches" into "cell phones".

"It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby."

Whoa, this is the first I'm learning of his Australian connection.
Other Australians in minor Americans roles: the so-called "Gorp Guy" - who is normally typecast as "love interest in soap opera about women who ride horses" (I'm not even kidding) and the girl who was famously folded up into a suitcase.

If you're a Farscape fan, you might wanna check it out: Ben Browder is in it.
(It's the one cameo that made me gasp in surprise; around the time the first one came out he joked that due to the Farscape/Guardians similarities he wanted to play Quill's father in the sequel - I kinda like to think of it as a winking