Pulphouse Press Short Story Hardback #30."Nine Lives" was first published in Playboy, November 1968.**Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969.

    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

    The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants.

    In 2025, a Message from Capella was received! And suddenly, Robert MacDonald, Project Director, faced one of mankind's greatest challenges. He had to find a way to decipher a communication from a totally alien culture...and then persuade a reluctant world to respond.