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Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #0.5) by Adams, Douglas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a novella by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe. It doesn't appear as a standalone work, but is included with several collections.It first appeared in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (1986) which Adams also co-edited. It also appears in slightly modified form in the Adams retrospective The Salmon of Doubt. The story also appears in some versions of the complete omnibus editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.The story is a prequel to the events in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and has the young Zaphod Beeblebrox working as a salvage ship operator. He guides some bureaucrats to a crashed spaceship which may be leaking some hazardous materials. The bureaucrats are determined to "make it safe". The comic asides in the story include some of the time travel paradoxes which are a common running theme in Adams' SF work, and plenty of material about lobsters
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- Author
- Adams, Douglas
- Publisher
- Book On Demand Ltd.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9785511976877
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (26,036 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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