Skin Game

Charles E. Fritch

Language: English

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Published: May 2, 1954

Magazine: If, May 1954

Description:

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 !