Golden Age Masterworks
3 total works
A legendary science fiction story, this trilogy, brought back into print in one single volume, presents hero Jason dinAlt as he discovers three separate planets. dinAlt finds excitement and intrigue as he investigates Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants, and natural elements are out to destroy man; the unknown second planet, where every man has to kill other men or live as a slave; and Felicity, where creatures are bred for thousands of years for a single deadly purpose.
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.
The first planet was called Pyrrus ...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The second planet was unknown ...a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill other men - or live as a slave. The third planet was called Felicity ...a joke, but not for those compelled to live there, along with the creatures bred for thousands of years for a single, deadly purpose. And one man, Jason dinAlt, has to face all three.