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Mike Simpson, professionally known as MJ Simpson, is a British author, journalist, scriptwriter and occasional actor. He was deputy editor of the British science fiction magazine ''
SFX SFX may refer to: Entertainment * Special effects (usually visual), illusions used in film, television, and entertainment * Sound effects, sounds that are artificially created or enhanced * SFX (magazine), ''SFX'' (magazine), a British magazine c ...
'' from 1995 to 1998. He was for several years an expert on the television writer and novelist
Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' developed into a " ...
and his work. Simpson wrote two books about Adams' ''
Hitchhiker's Guide ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (sometimes referred to as ''HG2G'', ''HHGTTG'', ''H2G2'', or ''tHGttG'') is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it w ...
'' and was involved in running ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' appreciation society. In 2005, on the release of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, Simpson closed down his website Planet Magrathea and gave up writing about the subject. He is now an authority on modern British horror films, a subject on which he has written one book so far as well as a regular column '21st Century Frights' in ''Scream'' magazine. Simpson's website about 'Cult movies and the people who make them' has been running continually since January 2002, initially at www.mjsimpson.co.uk (now defunct) and, since 2013, on Blogger.


Bibliography

* ''The Pocket Essential Hitchhiker's Guide'' * '' Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams'' (2003) * ''Urban Terrors: New British Horror Cinema 1997-2008'' (2012)


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