Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Young Zaphod Plays it Safe 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 set sometime after Life, the Universe and Everything and has 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." This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.