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Harry Harrison
The Stainless Steel Rat's RevengeThe Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
The Stainless Steel RatThe Stainless Steel Rat
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
Bill, the Galactic HeroBill, the Galactic Hero


Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
The Galactic Guerrilla Rat is back - 'Slippery Jim' diGriz is facing his greatest challenge yet. Angelina beautiful, bouncy and re-engineered to iron out those antisocial wrinkles - has co-erced the Rat into marriage. Getting a Licence means revealing their whereabouts and that means bringing down a whole heap of trouble from above. The arch conman and his companion find their only way out is to run back into the clutches of the Special Corps. The poachers turned gamekeepers are back on the side of law and order!
Commander Inskipp has just the job for Jim - waging war against the impossible. A crazy little planet named Cliaand is staging intersteller invasions, which simply can't be done!
Harry Harrison is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy novels. He was described by Philip K. Dick as 'the iconoclast of the known universe'. His Stainless Steel Rat books made their debut in the early 'sixties and have been one of SF's most popular series ever since. Harry Harrison lives in Ireland.
'A Monty Python of the spaceways' Daily Telegraph
'A truly breathtaking book' Times Literary Supplement


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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)
The Stainless Steel Rat
The Stainless Steel Rat...The poacher turned gamekeeper par excellence. In the vastness of Outer Space the crimes just get bigger, and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can switch personalities in a flash, con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time...You want a war, he'll start one - or stop it, if it pays better. Jim is so slippery that the only thing the inter-Galactic cops can do to stop him is make him one of their own.
The Rat's first case on the side of law and order brings him face to face with one of the most beautiful women in the galaxy. Taking Angelina into custody is no hardship at all for the reckless charmer, keeping her there is another matter all together.


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Paperback - Gollancz (2000)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
A metal highway under the sea, a rival to the massive powdered-coal-burning flying machines that dominate the transatlantic route, is no longer a dream. Captain Augustine Washington, the engineer, and his team of navvies are driving the tunnel across the Atlantic in an heroic feat of construction.
For Gus, a descendant of the infamous George Washington, executed after the Battle of Lexington, this is the opportunity to redeem the family name. But Gus's appointment has resulted in the implacable hostility of his employer, Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel, who orders his beautiful daughter, Iris, to break off her engagement to Gus. And there is a sinister and ruthless plot to destroy the tunnel - and Gus himself.
Harry Harrison's delightful parallel-world novel is set in the heyday of a British Empire that never lost its American colonies and is still driven by the spirit of Victorian enterprise and a Victorian code of honour. Hugely enjoyable and satisfying, A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is Harry Harrison at his idiosyncratic best.
'Superbly humorous ... I recommend this for its wit and excitement' David Wingrove
‘A genuine flavour of Verne… very enjoyable’ M.John Harrison


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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)
Bill, the Galactic Hero
Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of a passing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the Empire Space Corps. His basic training is sheer hell, but somehow he manages to stay alive and achieve the rank of Fusetender 6th Class in the process.
En route to an engagement with the lizard-like Chingers, Bill's spaceship is involved in a supreme conflict and - by accident - Bill is the man who saves the ship and wins the day. A grateful Galaxy awards him its highest accolade: the Purple Dart, to be presented by the Emperor himself on the fabulous aluminium-covered planet Helio. And then his adventures really start to take off in the most bizarre and surprising ways ...
'Simply the funniest science fiction book ever written' Terry Pratchett
‘The wildest, funniest, most iconoclastic novel yet written in the science fiction field’ Books and Bookmen
‘It displays a sureness of touch and an extent of horrific wartime farce unequalled in out time – except perhaps by Catch-22’ Douglas Hill, Tribune
‘The Catch-22 of SF’ Irish Times
‘Wonderfully funny… irresistible’ Brian Aldiss


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