Tag: Harry Harrison

The Stainless Steel Rat

The Stainless Steel Rat

by Harry Harrison (Pyramid, 1961)

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Fifty-five years after its first publication, Harry Harrison’s intergalactic crime caper remains a fast, funny read. Nowadays it is much en vogue to cheer for the antihero, but for his time Harrison’s roguish ne’er-do-well ‘slippery’ Jim Di Griz was quite the trendsetter.

 

A Rebel in Time

A Rebel in Time

by Harry Harrison (Granada, 1983)

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Nominally a paradox novel, A Rebel in Time was notable for bringing Harrison’s refreshingly liberal values to the field of adventure science fiction: a black army sergeant pursues a racist colonel back through time to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

 

Derelict Space Sheep