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A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born by Harry Harrison | Winking Fig

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A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born

1985·214 pages

Part of The Stainless Steel Rat series

Fantasy Science Fiction

adventurous space opera

A chronicle of the life and times of the Stainless Steel Rat; traces the rise of "Slippery Jim" diGriz from his humble origins as a shoplifter, through his schooling in arts of crime with the Bishop, to the heights of crime as an intergalactic con-man.

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A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born

Part of The Stainless Steel Rat series

Year

1985

Pages

214

Fantasy Science Fiction

Tags

adventurous space opera

Description

A chronicle of the life and times of the Stainless Steel Rat; traces the rise of "Slippery Jim" diGriz from his humble origins as a shoplifter, through his schooling in arts of crime with the Bishop, to the heights of crime as an intergalactic con-man.

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