The Misplaced Battleship
by Harry Harrison
This is a great story about the "Slipper" Jim DiGris, later known as the Stainless Steel Rat. We see DiGris and his two companions defeating Casino Planet to win money for the first time in this book so they can buy weapons to protect themselves from their home planet, the planet Pyrrhus. This story is a great short story. In this fascinating story by twentieth-century science fiction master Harry Harrison, a giant warship has come off the radar of a proverb. Will the cunning hero Jim diGriese and his fearless team of half-humanoid, half-working companions be able to take him away before he falls into the wrong hands and an interstellar war breaks out?
