Don't PanicThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre(s) as well as members of the scientific community. Certain phrases from it are widely recognised and often used in reference to, but outside the context of, the source material. Many writers on popular science, such as Fred Alan Wolf, Paul Davies, Max Miller[disambiguation needed ] and Michio Kaku, have used quotations from Adams' work in their books to illustrate facts about cosmology or philosophy.