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  1. The Stainless Steel Rat
    Harry Harrison
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    Slippery Jim diGriz is one of the last real criminals in a galaxy so orderly that crime has nearly died out, and he is proud of it. Then the Special Corps finally catches him, and…

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    Trigger Argee was sent to Maccadon's Colonial School to organize the Plasmoid Project, the study of living Old Galactic artifacts her boss, Commissioner Holati Tate, discovered. E…

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    Fritz Leiber
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    In the Deathlands, every stranger is a killer until proven otherwise, and most of them prove it. Ray Baker, bald, scarred and pushing forty, is a hundred miles from Nowhere when a…

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    Harry Harrison
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    Jason dinAlt is a gambler who wins whenever he wants to, and tonight a stranger wants him to turn twenty-seven million credits into three billion. The stranger is Kerk Pyrrus, and…

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    Garin Featherstone is a war-hero pilot with no war left to fight, until the explorer Gregory Farson hires him to fly into a strange blue haze rising from the Antarctic ice. Garin'…

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    Harry Harrison
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    Jason dinAlt is a gambler who wins whenever he wants to, and tonight a stranger wants him to turn twenty-seven million credits into three billion. The stranger is Kerk Pyrrus, and…

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    Ralph Milne Farley
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    A meteor that crashes onto a Massachusetts farm is really a capsule fired from Venus, carrying the story of Myles Cabot, the radio inventor who vanished from a locked room. A shor…

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
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    Race Cargill has spent six years behind a desk in Terran Intelligence, his face scarred and a death sentence on his name outside the Trade City walls on Wolf. On the night he fina…

  4. Lorelei of the Red Mist
    Leigh Brackett
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    Hugh Starke pulls off the biggest payroll robbery in history, crashes beyond the Mountains of White Cloud, and wakes up dying, until a green-haired woman offers him a new body. He…

  5. The Beast-Jewel of Mars
    Leigh Brackett
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    Burk Winters was a starship captain until the girl he meant to marry flew out over the Martian desert and never came back. Now he is a shaking wreck with one reason left to return…

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    Leigh Brackett
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    Ciaran is a wandering harper and a thief, and Mouse is a branded thief with a temper and a good throwing arm. Between them they have never had a full belly or a roof over their he…

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    Bron Hoddan grew up on Zan, a planet of space pirates who swear they are simple farmers, and he has spent two years trying to become a respectable engineer on super-civilized Wald…

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    The Mekinese fleet is coming to swallow the planet Kandar, and young Captain Bors is burning state secrets so the conquerors will find nothing worth reading. Then a space-yacht la…

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    Harry Harrison
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    Jason dinAlt is a gambler who wins whenever he wants to, and tonight a stranger wants him to turn twenty-seven million credits into three billion. The stranger is Kerk Pyrrus, and…

  5. The Stainless Steel Rat
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    Bored Chicago clubman Robert Grandon is drugged at the opera, offered a taste of real adventure, and wakes in another man's body as a slave in the marble quarries of Venus. A scie…

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    Harry Harrison
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    Ciaran is a wandering harper and a thief, and Mouse is a branded thief with a temper and a good throwing arm. Between them they have never had a full belly or a roof over their he…

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    For fifty dollars, Keawe buys a bottle that will grant any wish, and the man who sells it cannot get him out of the door fast enough. An imp lives in the milk-white glass. It can…