Harry Harrison is back to reprise his Stainless Steel Rat series. This book is much like the others — think light fiction with contrived situations, but a bit of fun. In other words, much like the rest of Harrison’s work. This book isn’t the best Rat book, but it also isn’t the worst and given…
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The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat
This is an omnibus edition, containing: The Stainless Steel Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge, and The Stainless Steel Rats Revenge. [isbn: 0425095312]
There Is No Darkness
This book is very different from the other Joe Haldeman stuff I have read. The other stuff has been serious, thoughtful, and well written. This is attempting to be more of a parody book, much like what you’d get from Harry Harrison. Perhaps that’s the influence of the co-author, Joe’s brother. I must say however…
Galactic Dreams
This is a relatively short collection of Harry Harrison short stories. They are: I always do what Teddy says: what happens when we abdicate teaching our youngsters moral values to machine, and then don’t test that the machine is working correctly? A short story about unit testing? Space rats of the CCC: this story is…
Deathworld Three
I thought this one didn’t sound as good as the others, but I was wrong. Its quite different from the other two in its setting, but its still the same romping Harrison style that I like. A little bit unlikely, quite sweeping in scope, and interesting. I liked it. [isbn: 0722144180;B000OFKKP6]
Deathworld Two
This book is possibly better than Deathworld One, although I find Mikah’s character intensely annoying. That’s probably ok though, because he’s meant to be annoying. Oh $DEITY is he successful. This was another good fun light read, the kind of Harrison I enjoy. [isbn: 0722144849;B000OFKKP6]
Deathworld One
This is an interesting book. Its quite Stainless Steel Rat like in approach. There is a slightly crooked male lead character, who has unusual insight. He has a beautiful female side kick, who has a strong personality of her own. The story is slightly humorous, and amazing. This is probably the most exciting book I’ve…
Make Room, Make Room!
I must have read this book a few years ago and forgotten, because I have no specific recollection of reading it, but the plot is familiar. This is a distopian novel about the dangers of over population, and was written at a time when the best available population models said that massive over population was…
Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains
(Edited by Harry Harrison.) This book started off better than Planet of the Robot Slaves, but I found the random Star Trek and Star Wars rip offs in the middle of the book intensely annoying. This isn’t so much a satire it is a disjointed list of ideas. I’m disappointed to be honest. [isbn: 0380756625]
You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat
This is a Stainless Steel Rat book, although different from the norm because it is a choose your own adventure. Its also the last of the Stainless Steel Rat books in the series, and the only one I hadn’t yet read. I figured I’d document my path through the story, so here goes: 30 –…