He created the world to tell the story; he didn't tell the story to create the world. The story is primary, and if a detail is irrelevant to the story, why inve

He created the world to tell the story; he didn't tell the story to create the world. The story is primary, and if a detail is irrelevant to the story, why invent it? Some writers do it the other way around: they invent a world and then make up stories that happen in it, but I don't think Adams approached writing in that way.