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John Schoenherr, cover art for "The Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison, 1961
This book holds up really well in comparison to most sci fi from that era.
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John Schoenherr, cover art for "The Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison, 1961
This book holds up really well in comparison to most sci fi from that era.
The Stainless Steel Rat - Yourself
You are yourself... just yourself!
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Jim diGriz; Harry Harrison; The Stainless Steel Rat
The Stainless Steel Rat - Living and Dying
There's something you are going to have to settle in your own mind before you will be happy. This stupid importance you attach to death. Don't you realize how completely trivial it is? Two hundred years from now you, I and every person now living in the galaxy will be dead. What does it matter if a few of them are helped along and reach their destination a bit quicker? They'd do the same to you if they had the chance.
"You're wrong," I insisted, knowing that there is more to living and dying than just this pessimistic philosophy.
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Angela, Jim diGriz; Harry Harrison; The Stainless Steel Rat
The Stainless Steel Rat - Drugs
Centuries of research have produced drugs than can simulate any mental condition in the user. Like to be paranoid for a day? Take a pill. You too can go around the bend, friend.
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Jim diGriz; Harry Harrison; The Stainless Steel Rat
The Stainless Steel Rat - Murder
By her standards I was a rank amateur. I hadn't killed more than--that ind of violence was rarely necessary in my type of operation--surely no more than... none? Well, well--old chicken-hearted revealed at last. Rough and tough diGriz the Killer who never killed! It was nothing to be ashamed of, quite the opposite in fact. I placed a value on human life, the one unchanging value in existence.
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Jim diGriz; Harry Harrison; The Stainless Steel Rat
The Stainless Steel Rat - Coin Toss
There was one idea drifting in and out of my head, but it bordered on madness. If it misfired I would be either dead or barred from these noble circles forever. This was a fate I could easily stand--but it wouldn't help me find my lovely quarry. However--if the plan did work it would shortcut all the other nonsense. I flipped a coin to decide, and of course won since I had palmed the coin before the toss. It was going to be action.
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Jim diGriz; Harry Harrison; The Stainless Steel Rat