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The Stainless Steel Rat and The Misplaced Battleship: With linked Table of Contents Kindle Edition

by Harry Harrison (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,357 ratings
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It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing battleship and make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. A fast paced comical science fiction romp!
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    The Stainless Steel Rat
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    October 2, 2015
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James Bolivar Slippery Jim diGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, and interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet 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 brings 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.

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Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0163Z5SGG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Positronic Publishing (October 2, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 743 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 34 pages
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    Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction (SF) author, best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

    Aldiss called him "a constant peer and great family friend". His friend Michael Carroll said, "Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark, and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring adventures, but they're stories with a lot of heart."

    Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Szymon Sokół (Picture taken at Worldcon 2005) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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I got recommended this book by a respected author and I decided to buy it off here on paperback. Unfortunately, it isn’t an official book but rather a print on plastic with several blank pages on the front and back of it.Not only is the lettering small and hard to read, but I spotted grammatical errors that must have been copy and pasted from the ebook version (other reviewers complained about the problems with the ebook). Please don’t buy it here.
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GadgetGuy
5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Treasure, Not to Be Missed
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2012
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I just read the news today that Harry Harrison just passed away at the age of 87, which means it's a very sad day indeed for the science fiction community. I've been waiting for many years for the original three Stainless Steel Rat books to be released in e-book format (I had one of the original Sony Readers), so after reading today's news, I was reminded to look once again. Lo and behold, here they are! The Stainless Steel Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, and The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World, all finally available in electronic form!

I have very fond memories of reading (and re-reading) these wonderfully entertaining books when I was quite young, delighted by their smart-alecky, irreverent narrative style that Mr. Harrison never quite duplicated as sharply in the other Stainless Steel Rat stories written years later. Remarkably, I'm finding they can still make me laugh out loud. Many of the supporting characters are two dimensional, cartoon-character-like dullards (it's always been clear that Mr. Harrison had little regard for the military, for example) that make these such great escapist entertainment. Also, the notion of a bad guy with a high sense of morality about never hurting his "victims" too seriously made "Slippery Jim diGriz" an interesting anti-hero who was always in complete command of his environment, and yet vulnerable to the bad guys because of these high morals.

I can honestly say that few books have ever entertained me the way these have, and I would warmly recommend them to anyone with a sense of humor, as well as what we used to think of as a sense of adventure.

Although the world has lost a very talented author, it's somehow fitting that these books are finally being made available for all to rediscover and enjoy. They are not to be missed!
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Terence Greeks
4.0 out of 5 stars This book really is the bowb...
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2012
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Of all of Harry Harrison's works, the Stainless Steel Rat series is for my money the most enjoyable. A sly mixture of SF and humor employing equal quantities of satire and parody, with a memorable character at the heart of the stories.

James Bolivar 'Slippery Jim' diGriz is a gleefully anarchic hero with a strong moral center. 'The Stainless Steel Rat' is the story of how this highly individualistic career criminal of the future is recruited into the Special Corps to track down other, more malevolent law-breakers.

This book was one of the shining gems of my teen reading years. The sequels were even better.

It is a "lock-'em-in-the-hole-and-torture-'em-with-'The-Sound-Of-Music'-24/7" crime that the Stainless Steel Rat has not yet reached the big screen.

As for this Kindle edition. 4 out of 5 stars, thanks to a few niggling transcription errors that should have been picked up by the proof-readers.
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Kevin Hangman
5.0 out of 5 stars classic!
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023
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Loved this book many years ago. Even better now. Great read and great characters. Classic science fiction that endures through the ages.
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Christine-Lee
3.0 out of 5 stars Its a fun, if somewhat "simple" read for Sci-fi fans
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2013
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It's a classic and it's fun, but do not expect anything too elaborate or in-depth with either character development or futuristic-science descriptions. Aimed at a male reader with typical viewpoints on females and the expected reactions to the main (male) character, but by no means grossly chauvinistic-- the main woman is smart in Harrison's S.S.R. series, but she falls into a typical pattern that has become a stereotype for many of Harrison's (and similar writer's) books.

Overall: a quick, fun read that doesn't demand too much cerebrally.
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justchris
5.0 out of 5 stars A beloved classic.
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2023
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This is not the first time I've read this book, and probably won't be the last. I love The Stainless Steel Rat series, so of course the story brings me joy.
If you ever watched the series To Catch A Third, then you understand exactly what this series is. If not, think of Robin Hood or Leverage and you're not far off.
This is a story about the galaxy's greatest thief, a sci-fi classic. There is one part that feels kind of forced, but what it is would be spoilers. It can be forgiven for the first book in the series. The later books are much smoother. Read it if you like fun, quick reads with intelligent characters who happily engage in caperism.
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Rob Moses
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, tiny print
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2021
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I love this book, but this copy I cannot read due to the painfully tiny print. I will use it as a loaner or gift (someone young with good eyes).
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Geoffrey Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, and still fun to re-read after 30+ years
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015
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I have long been a Harry Harrison fan. I started reading the Stainless Steel Rat books back in high school (early 1980's) and enjoy them immensely. Great escape fiction, fun, light reading, and entertaining. I have bought copies many times, including used copies, so it is about time to have these electronically.

If you have a teenaged boy who doesn't like reading, a good starting point is the Stainless Steel Rat series. Buy a used copy, or a kindle version, these tales are page turners.
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Michael
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, poor edition
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2022
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This book is full of spelling errors. I recommend purchasing the Tor (Macmillan) edition instead.
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stacy milne
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth a read
Reviewed in Canada on November 14, 2020
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It's a great series of books. A bit sexist, not going to lie.

I read them all as a kid, and re-reading them as an adult, they still hold up in a uniquely charming way
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in Australia on December 14, 2018
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Devoured in my youth, savoured in my maturity
Why more words? Ok, blah blah blah blah smegging blah blah. Morons
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Amanda
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2014
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First came across the Stainless Steel Rat character in my early teens when undertaking my usual Saturday morning jaunt to the local library. Not sure what drew me to these books in particular as I wasn't a sci-fi fan at the time but I must have liked the cover and thought the story was fun. I was hooked after my first book and was always eagerly looking out for the others on library day!

Hadn't thought about the books in years until a few months ago browsing Amazon and as on the look out for a certain sci-fi book. When the SSR collection appeared I jumped at the chance to get them all on the kindle.

Can't praise these books enough. Harry Harrison's writing style is clear and funny without being too dumbed down bearing in mind the main character is a teenage boy and perhaps that may have been the author's target audience at the start.

I suppose it could be deemed as young adult fiction nowadays but I still think that its open to anyone.

The storylines are quite fresh and fun, the humour is subtle and there is plenty of action and serious topics to keep your interest.

Its great growing up with the SSR from being a 17 year old into young manhood.

Harry was way ahead of his time - whilst the technology he wrote about would not have existed at the time of writing other than having been dreamt up in other sci-fi books or films, it's the way Harry utilises it within the SSR world that makes his writing innovative.

Really can't recommend these books enough - quick, easy, fun and smart. You won't be disappointed.
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Technocrat Prime
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful SF by a Grand Master
Reviewed in Germany on July 24, 2013
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I'll make this simple: I'm a great fan of SF and in my 50-years-long career as a SF reader, the Stainless Steel Rat series ranks right up with the Grand Masters like E. E. Doc Smith's Lensmen series, Poul Andersons Flandry Cycle or Asimov's Foundation novels. SF really does not get better than this, even Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy can't beat this classic.
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Jim
5.0 out of 5 stars Rollicking Good Read
Reviewed in Canada on June 26, 2020
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I have read a couple of other books by Harry Harrison and they are all great entertainment. A great read for the beach or any other place for that matter!
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