The short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" pretty much delivers what the title suggests. It's a solo story featuring Zaphod Beeblebrox before the events of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this tale a less abrasive Zaphod takes some officials to an underwater crash site. The wrecked ship is filled terrible things such as chemicals for warfare, equipment to mine the past, and so forth. But the worst thing has escaped, one of three synthetic people who have gone to Earth. The nature of this false creature is that they seem harmless but are terrifically dangerous for just that reason. It is implied but not stated explicitly in this version of the story that the synthetic person is Ronald Reagan. These notions are explored further in the fifth novel Mostly Harmless. I'll get around to that later today.
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