Young Zaphod Plays It Safe

"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" is a short story by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe. It is included with several collections but has never been released as a standalone work. It first appeared in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (1986) which Adams also co-edited. A slightly revised version appeared in the 1996 anthology The Wizards of Odd, edited by Peter Haining. The story then appeared in some omnibus editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as the Adams retrospective The Salmon of Doubt, and the 2013 anthology The Time Traveler's Almanac.