Harry Harrison 3 hr 2 min read

Master criminal 'Slippery Jim' diGriz, the last great crook in a too-orderly galaxy, is caught and press-ganged into the Special Corps, the only outfit clever enough to catch him.

Harry Harrison's 1961 novel launches the beloved Stainless Steel Rat series. Fast, funny, endlessly entertaining. Read it for the debut of one of SF's most delightful rogues, a charming interstellar con-man-turned-agent matching wits with a beautiful, ruthless villainess, in a rollicking, wisecracking caper that spawned a much-loved series.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 2 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).