The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell

Surrounded by the unnildecnovum, entropy is reversed. Instead of getting older, tireder, senescent-I grow younger, energeticer, youthfuler. And the more unnildeenovum I add to the sphere the faster reverse entropy moves. So you see what I am offering you? Eternity. Join me and live forever! One of these entropy shells could be yours.”

Warily, spread out with our weapons ready, we walked down the valley. It was peaceful and serene and undoubtedly very dangerous.

How I wish I could kill you, diGriz. That was my primary mistake. If I had killed you the first time I saw you none of this would have happened.”

I didn’t really care about the bomb; I just wanted to be as far away from the lure of eternity as I could get.

I panicked, didn’t I?”
“It can happen to anyone.”
“It didn’t happen to you. You got me into the cage and into the pit-and got yourself into it as well.”
“Let’s say that I have had more experience at this kind of thing-so don’t let it bother you. Most important is what do we do next?”

That’s the right word for it. When all the possibilities have been tried-then it is tune to look to the impossible.”

Learn fast, live. No learn, die.”

First I used hypnotic gas to make you amenable, then it was only a matter of simple suggestion to control a simple mind. You were happy to turn over your boots to me. Along with your life, you must realize. I am the master of science, of life and death; time and entropy!”

You will also remember that when you saved the Special Corps from time attack you met those time travelers from the future, who gave you a machine. It froze everyone around you with a time stasis. Once I knew it could be done the rest was easy.”

The trouble with you men is that all the testosterone and other hormones you have whizzing around your systems tend to make your actions very predictable. So try to be a little more devious, just this once. These men you are looking for, Slakey and Company, are just as masculine as the rest of you and will be expecting you to do what you are planning to be doing.”