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Stainless Steel Visions

by Harry Harrison · 1993

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Assembled here are 13 of Harrison's best, spanning time and space from the England of old to empires millennia from now. Among the stories included are "The Golden Years of the Stainless Steel Rat," in which the cops have finally caught up with an aging Slippery Jim diGriz; "Roomates," the original basis for the movie Soylent Green; and twelve more galaxy-spanning classics!

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From the bestselling West of Edentrilogy to Bill, The Galactic Heroand its sequels, from the Deathworldseries to the Stainless Steel Ratbooks, Harry Harrison's career is a series of landmarks. Stainless Steel Visionsis another: his first major collection of short fiction.

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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