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The Stainless Steel Rat

by Harry Harrison · 1961

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In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is make him one of their own

Genre
science fictionhumoradventurespace operafantasy
Themes
music
Setting
future
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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