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The Stainless Steel Rat: The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison

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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.

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The Stainless Steel Rat: The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison

So far, so cool. About halfway through, this book is as much fun as I remember it being 😁 Some low-level sexism about par for it's publication date, not too offputting, I guess. Harrison does give Angelina agency.
That aside, seeing Jim getting in and out of scrapes as he cons his way across the galaxy is what the book's about, told in first person, with some homespun criminal philosophy.

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The Stainless Steel Rat: The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison

Continuing my comfort reads with the first of Harry Harrison's sci-fi humour novels starring Slippery Jim diGriz, the interstellar conman known as The Stainless Steel Rat. I love the Barry Jones cover art on this edition.

Leftcoastzen Oh my gosh! Such a blast from the past! 5y

Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen Oldie, but goodie, I think 😊 It's been a few decades since I last read this, and I'm not sure how I'll feel about old Harry's attitudes these days, as humour has a way of channelling and magnifying cultural attitudes, but I'm hoping he's stood the test of time 🤞🏻 5y

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