Harry Harrison Trilogy: A Stainless Steel Rat is Born/The Stainless Steel Rat for President/The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues

by Harry Harrison

One of SF's most beloved rogues: the Stainless Steel Rat!

Slippery Jim DiGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat: the galaxy's greatest interstellar thief and con artist. For novel upon novel, the Rat has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems-and stealing the hearts of thousands of readers.

Now three of the Rat's greatest exploits are collected in a single volume. In A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born, we see the origin and early days of Jim DiGriz's brilliant criminal career, as our underworld hero is forced to work for the Good Guys. Conscripted again in The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, this time into a planetary army, the Rat must avenge the murder of his mentor-in-crime. And in The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues, Slippery Jim must retrieve a missing alien artifact, while disguised as a futuristic rock-and-roller...or forfeit his life.

Genres: Science Fiction, Humor

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Published October 1, 1986

About the author

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Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey) was an American science fiction author best known for his character the The Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). He was also (with Brian W. Aldiss) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

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Reviews

[Donald Wunder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harry Harrison is an Author although not hailed as much as Isaac Asimov in sci-fi was a pretty legendary and respected fella and he wrote the first book series i actually even read seriously starting from this prequel trilogy collection

Fantastic writing, fun characters, clever adenturers and overall just a really enjoyable journey through the life of a theift

You can check out my video dedication to Mr Harrison and this book series in particular

https://youtu.be/uUVAxQsjpYM

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three enjoyable stories, very likable main character, I had a hard time putting this down.