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1 author picked A Stainless Steel Trio as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I happened upon a Stainless Steel Rat book some years ago and found it delightful, so this year I got this omnibus. These are prequel novels, so they happen chronologically before the main series, and take us through the early years of “Slippery” Jim Degriz. I love them partly because they play with genre–you don’t often encounter a sci-fi rogue–but mostly because they are wonderfully written: not especially deep, but adventurous and funny.

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