The Stainless Steel Rat Returns
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Publisher Description
A long-lost cousin, a shipful of swine, and a wild intergalactic journey - the Stainless Steel Rat is back in action!
After a ten-year absence, James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, and interstellar criminal (retired), returns in one of the most enduring series in modern science fiction. Living high on the hog on the planet of Moolaplenty, Jim's comfortable life is suddenly disrupted when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on a madcap adventure.
In Stainless Steel Rat Returns, Harry Harrison brings his most famous character out of retirement for a grand tour of the galaxy. With a cocktail in his hand, a smile on his lips, and larceny in his heart, the Stainless Steel Rat sets off in search of excitement, gravitons, and a way to rid himself of the troublesome pigs. This darkly satiric space opera promises thrills, humor, and a wild ride through the cosmos.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harrison returns to his long-running interstellar adventure series for the first time since 1999's The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus. Slippery Jim DiGriz, a thief and con artist, is enjoying a comfortable 35th-century life when his hick relatives show up, farm animals in tow, looking for a handout. Jim and his beloved wife, Angelina, are soon careening around to various backwater worlds where Jim hopes to ditch the unwanted kinfolk. The series' 1960s origins are most painfully obvious in the descriptions of a planet where the green-skinned, shiftless, slow-witted majority oppresses the smarter, slower-breeding, pink-skinned minority. Shocked not by the race wars but by the existence of races at all, Jim (himself quite pink) declares that the different skin colors "should have been bred out centuries ago." Modern readers are unlikely to find this tale appealing in any way.
