Harry Harrison

A seminal work of science fiction—an unnerving vision of the consequences of unchecked overpopulation. The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, trample for lentil 'steaks', and sweat beneath a sweltering sun. Amid it all, a city cop tries to catch a gangster's killer and vie...

A stainless steel rat for a stainless steel world... Meet Slippy Jim, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, aka James Bolivar DiGritz. A man of many names and many talents... all of which add up to make one of the greatest con men of all time. Charming, quick-witted, physically fit, a master of disguise, a skilled liar, an accomplished bank robber...

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 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 settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with millisecond reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder. It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why...