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Old 06-28-2019, 06:04 AM   #2871
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In Harrison's worlds, governments typically made better decisions than individuals and were benevolent. In his stories, characters that choose individualism over the common good are foils to the heroes that act selflessly. ...
That's not how I remember the Stainless Steel Rat books. Didn't Slippery Jim always go his own way fixing the mistakes of bumbling bureaucracies?

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