A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born

A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0575115440

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Young Jim diGriz has but one ambition in life - to become a master criminal, perhaps the greatest that his backwater homeworld, Bit O'Heaven, has ever seen. So that he can learn the ropes, he has to mix with the right people - or rather the wrong people. And for this kind of on-the-job training the best place to meet the worst villains is in prison. But even for a customer as slippery as Jim, getting behind bars isn't easy. So Jim does a bank job, very badly, with the avowed intention of getting himself nicked . . .


The Stainless Steel Rat

The Stainless Steel Rat

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-10-09

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1649742177

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Here’s the original short story that first introduced us to Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat! diGriz is charming, quick-witted, sophisticated, and a devious criminal mastermind. The Rat has just pulled off a successful and complex criminal operation, but the Special Corps is on his trail. Is this the end for the Stainless Steel Rat or just the beginning? Join Slippery Jim on this rollicking adventure.


The Stainless Steel Rat Returns

The Stainless Steel Rat Returns

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780765364036

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After a ten-year absence, the return of one of the most enduring series characters in modern SF James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet of Moolaplenty when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on the wildest journey since Gulliver's Travels. In this darkly satiric work, Harry Harrison bring his most famous character out of retirement for a grand tour of the galaxy. The Stainless Steel Rat rides again: a cocktail in his hand, a smile on his lips, and larceny in his heart, in search of adventure, gravitons, and a way to get rid of the pigs.


The Stainless Steel Rat Joins The Circus

The Stainless Steel Rat Joins The Circus

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-10-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780812575354

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Slippery Jim DiGriz, the galaxy's greatest thief and con artist, infiltrates a circus to solve a series of interstellar bank robberies. He has been hired as a sleuth by the bank owner, a 40,000-year-old billionaire.


The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!

The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 0575115424

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Slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Rat - is still recovering from his efforts to save his beloved Angelina from the notorious Interstellar Internal and External Revenue when he is called upon to perform the impossible. Saving the galaxy. But can he pull it off? The galaxy is being attacked by every kind of alien race - untold billions of tentacled, slimy, green, clawed mutations - and time is running out. Aided and abetted by his wife Angelina and his teenage sons, James and Bolivar, Jim infiltrates the nerve centre of the enemy council chambers. But he hasn't reckoned on the grey men and their commitment to a 'holy crusade' to destroy mankind - permanently!


Bill, the Galactic Hero

Bill, the Galactic Hero

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1466822732

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“The funniest science fiction book ever written” is a space military parody about a hapless soldier from a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee (Terry Pratchett, New York Times–bestselling author of the Discworld novels). It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn’t interested in honour—he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse . . . Praise for Harry Harrison “A perfectly grand storyteller.” —David Brin, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Star Tide Rising “Few commercial writers are more deserving of their popularity than Harrison, a fine writer who occasionally reaches brilliant heights.” —Publishers Weekly


The Stainless Steel Rat Goes To Hell

The Stainless Steel Rat Goes To Hell

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1996-10-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0312860633

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Outlaw Jim diGriz searches for his wife, abducted while returning from a trip to heaven, a search that takes him to hell where he meets man-eating devils. The setting is a planet from where you can visit heaven.


The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1466822805

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DiGriz and Angelina are happily married and expecting the birth of their sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war, and against the odds, its Grey Men are invading and taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planet's leader, Kraj. He is aided by the Amazons, a force of liberated freedom fighters, and eventually by his wife who arrives to help him win the war and keep him out of the arms of the Amazons. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Hammer and the Cross

The Hammer and the Cross

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 1994-11-15

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 1466823305

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In this rich and exciting alternate history, a Science Fiction Hall of Famer “evokes the spirit and atmosphere of the so-called Dark Ages” (Publishers Weekly). 865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests. Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A blacksmith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom—and launch an all-out war between. . . . The Hammer and the Cross. “Savage, inventive, compelling.” —Piers Anthony, New York Times–bestselling author of the Xanth series “Few historicals are as powerfully evocative of time and place as Harrison’s tremendous saga.” —Kirkus Reviews