The human race is gregarious, I knew that even though I had been denying it for years.
I was going to keep on doing the loneliest job in the universe — only I wasn't going to be doing it alone.


Jim diGriz, in "The Stainless Steel Rat" in Astounding magazine (August 1957)


The human race is gregarious, I knew that even though I had been denying it for years. I was going to keep on doing the loneliest job in the universe ...

The human race is gregarious, I knew that even though I had been denying it for years. I was going to keep on doing the loneliest job in the universe ...

The human race is gregarious, I knew that even though I had been denying it for years. I was going to keep on doing the loneliest job in the universe ...

The human race is gregarious, I knew that even though I had been denying it for years. I was going to keep on doing the loneliest job in the universe ...