The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

[samvara]

*snortle*

Some re-reading, I keep seeing them in $2 boxes at Elizabeth's and thinking "Why not?"

And indeed why not, the Stainless Steel Rat is funny, cute, amoral and talented as he charges through the universe creating work for the police, livening up economies and giving the newspapers something to write about.

It turns out Harry Harrison is partially responsible for the horror that is Bill the Galactic Hero.

Bibliography

Deathworld

1. Deathworld (1960)
2. Deathworld Two (1964)
3. Deathworld Three (1968)

Stainless Steel Rat

1. The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
2. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970)
3. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972)
4. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978)
5. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982)
The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (1983)
6. A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born (1985)
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (1985)
Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat (omnibus) (1986)
7. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987)
8. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994)
9. Stainless Steel Visions (1992)
10. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996)
11. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999)
A Stainless Steel Trio (omnibus) (2002)

Saint (Simon Templar) (with Leslie Charteris)

37. Vendetta for the Saint (1964)

To the Stars

1. Homeworld (1980)
2. Starworld (1981)
3. Wheelworld (1981)
To the Stars (omnibus) (1991)

Eden

1. West of Eden (1984)
2. Winter in Eden (1986)
3. Return to Eden (1988)

Hammer and the Cross

1. The Hammer and the Cross (1993)
2. One King's Way (1994)
3. King and Emperor (1996) (with John Holm (Tom Shippey))

Stars and Stripes

1. Stars and Stripes Forever (1998)
2. Stars and Stripes in Peril (2000)
3. Stars and Stripes Triumphant (2001)

Planet of the Damned (1962) aka A Sense of Obligation
Plague from Space (1965)
Make Room! Make Room! (1966)
Backdrop of Stars (1968)
The Man from P.I.G. (1968)
The Technicolor Time Machine (1968)
Captive Universe (1969)
In Our Hands, the Stars (1970)
The Jupiter Legacy (1970)
Spaceship Medic (1970)
Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died (1972)
Tunnel Through the Deeps (1972) aka A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. (1974)
Queen Victoria's Revenge (1974)
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1974)
The California Iceberg (1975) (with James E Barry)
The Lifeship (1976) (with Gordon R Dickson) aka Lifeboat
Skyfall (1976)
The Daleth Effect (1977)
Great Balls of Fire (1977)
Mechanismo (1978)
Planet Story (1979)
The QEII Is Missing (1980)
Planet of No Return (1981)
Invasion: Earth (1982)
The Jupiter Plague (1982)
A Rebel in Time (1983)
Tales from the Planet Earth: A Novel with Nineteen Authors (1986) (with Lino Aldani, Brian Aldiss, Karl-Michael Armer, Jon Bing, Andre Carneiro, A Bertram Chandler, Ljuben Dilov, Tong Enzheng, Carlos Maria Federici, Sam J Lundwall, Joseph Nesvadba, Frederik Pohl, Spider Robinson, Tetsu Yano, Ye Yonglie and Janusz A Zajdel)
Montezuma's Revenge (1987)
The Turing Option (1992) (with Marvin Minsky)

Collections

War with the Robots (1962)
Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1968)
Prime Number (1970)
One Step from Earth (1971)
The Best of Harry Harrison (1977)
Galactic Dreams (1994)
The Deathworld Omnibus (omnibus) (1999)
50 in 50 (2001)

Series contributed to

Bill, the Galactic Hero

1. Bill the Galactic Hero (1965)
2. The Planet of Robot Slaves (1989)
3. The Planet of the Bottled Brains (1990) (with Robert Sheckley)
4. The Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1990) (with David F Bischoff)
5. The Planet of the Zombie Vampires (1991) (with Jack C Haldeman, II)
6. The Planet of the Hippies from Hell (1991) (with David F Bischoff) aka The Planet of Ten Thousand Bars
7. The Final Incoherent Adventure (1992) (with David Harris)

Comments

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

...partially responsible for the horror that is Bill the Galactic Hero.

*giggles while remembering Bill's alligator foot*

*browsing*

Oh. I quite liked Deathworld....Stainless Steel Rat - more books than the library had, must make effort to read the rest...Huh, Wheelworld was the third in a series...The Men from PIG and ROBOT was funny, though it probably would have helped to read The Man from PIG first... and Bill the Galactic Hero.

Interesting.

*prods own Harry Harrison love*

No. I don't think I can face reading all of that.

[scotsnow.livejournal.com]

Bill, The Galactic Hero is a hoot. I laughed and laughed and laughed. A wonderfully left wing anti-war scree.

Also love Stainless Steel Rat and Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers.

Harry Harrison is a hugely underrated talent.