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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

—Willem Dafoe

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Young Zaphod Plays It Safe

(1986)

	Author:	Douglas Adams
	Illustrator:	Peter Cross
	Editor:	No Editors Set
	Publisher:	Pan Books
	Pages:	0

	Personal Rating:	0/10
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	Goodreads:	3.5/5

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Found in:

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide [1996]

Classifications:

Comedy
SciFi

Synopsis:

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. 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