In this episode from the early career of Slippery Jim DiGriz, our hero prepares to rob a brand-new, unbreakable mint, gets caught, and is blackmailed by the Galactic League authorities into venturing forth upon a prison plant populated, variously, by swaggering macho Machmen, goat-herding religious-maniac Fundamentaloids, Iron John cultists, and bloodthirsty Survivalists, in order to recover an irreplaceable alien artifact reportedly swiped by one of the wacko groups. which is a tune the Stainless Steel Rat most certainly knows how to sing.A return for Harrison's best-known creation, the picaresque Stainless Steel Rat-far-future thief, con man, iconoclast, and knight errant. DiGriz has developed an almost perfect cover: a four-member rock band that has a way of giving its audiences what they want to hear.īut while the days tick away and diGriz’s life expectancy lowers, the mission evolves from finding an artifact to liberating a planet.
Now the Stainless Steel Rat is on his way to a world that is hurtling backward down the evolutionary scale – a land of fanatic, goat-herding Fundamentaloids, murderous Machmen, and a rusty guru named Iron John. To ensure the utterly untrustworthy diGriz’s cooperation, the League has given him a slow-acting poison, allowing him thirty days in which to succeed. Another is a little matter of life and death. One is Liokukae itself – a dumping ground for the League’s misfits, murderers, maniacs, and the incurably obnoxious. Threatened with a horrific death, Slippery Jim is allowed to cut a deal with the Galactic League: voyage to the planet Liokukae and bring back a missing artifact – the only known evidence of alien life-forms found in 32,000 years of galactic exploration.įor diGriz there are a few catches. Slippery Jim diGriz is in the process of robbing the new Mint on Paskonjak when the heist goes terribly wrong.
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