[Gutenberg 31665] • Skin Game
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- Authors
- Fritch, Charles E.
- Tags
- swindlers and swindling -- fiction , short stories , science fiction
- Date
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.09 MB
- Lang
- en
Skin Game appeared in the May 1954 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.
Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. That is—until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took their skinning literally!