Young Zaphod plays it safe

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The young Zaphod plays it safe (Original: Young Zaphod Plays it Safe ) is a short story by British writer Douglas Adams . In terms of content, it represents a prehistory to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the subsequent novels.

Adams wrote Young Zaphod plays it safe for the 1986 book The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book . After his death, a slightly modified version in salmon appeared in doubt .

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Zaphod Beeblebrox , one of the main characters in the Hitchhiker's Guide , is a spaceship pilot at the time of the action and has the task of bringing a group of officers to a crashed spaceship, which was supposed to throw its cargo into a black hole . According to the officials, this cargo is "completely harmless". When Zaphod asked why the officers wanted to check the freight, they replied that they would basically like to look at things that are completely harmless.

When entering the crashed ship, it turns out that there are three artificially created people on board who appear completely harmless, but precisely because of this property are extremely dangerous: They do everything they are allowed to do and because of their apparent harmlessness there is nothing what they would not be allowed to do.

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  • First edition: Young Zaphod Plays It Safe. In: The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book. 1986.
  • German: The young Zaphod plays it safe. In: Peter Haining (Ed.): Dangerous antics. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5909, 1997, ISBN 3-453-13343-9 . Also as: Jung-Zaphod plays it safe. In: Salmon in Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy for the Last Time. Rogner & Bernhard at Two Thousand One, 2003, ISBN 3-8077-0129-X .
  • Audiobook: Young Zaphod plays it safe: Complete reading. Read by Boris Aljinovic . Director: Gabriele Bigott . Translated by Erik Simon . Der Hörverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89940-611-7 (CD), ISBN 3-8445-0277-7 (MP3).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams


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