In Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! are the recollections of one of the grand masters of science fiction, on his storied career as a celebrated author and on his relationships with other luminaries in the field. This memoir is filled with all the humor and irreverence Harry Harrison's readers have come to expect from the New York Times bestselling author of the uproarious Stainless Steel Rat series. This also includes black and white photos spanning his sixty-year...

Jason dinAlt is a professional gambler who travels between different worlds in the universe. Right now, he is gambling on the planet Cassylia. One day, he meets the ambassador of Pyrrus – the most hostile world in the universe. Kerk, the ambassador, offers dinAlt money to run a stake up for him. After Jason finally wins the needed amount, he tries to escape with the money, but gets captured.Why did Kerk offer money to dinAlt and not to someone else? What are his real intentions? Wh...

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 se...

One of science fiction's most beloved rogues: Harry Harrison's ‘The Stainless Steel Rat.’ American science fiction writer Harry Harrison is most known for creating the character The Stainless Steel Rat in his 1966 book Make Room! Make Room!, which served as the inspiration for the 1973 movie Soylent Green. In addition, he served as the Birmingham Science Fiction Group's co-president.DiGriz gets apprehended while committing a crime and enlisted in the Special Corps. During his probationary ...

When the office door opened suddenly I knew the game was up. It had been a money-maker—but it was all over. As the cop walked in I sat back in the chair and put on a happy grin. He had the same somber expression and heavy foot that they all have—and the same lack of humor. I almost knew to the word what he was going to say before he uttered a syllable. "James Bolivar diGriz I arrest you on the charge—" I was waiting for the word charge, I thought it made a nice touch that way. As he said i...

Hugo Award Finalist: A mystery at the heart of a desert planet and its ruling class must be solved in this thrilling tale from a Grand Master of Science Fiction.Brion Brandd has just triumphed in the planetary contest called the "Twenties, "a series of physical and mental trials meant to push contestants to their limits. But before he can fully recover from these tests, he's recruited by former Twenties champion Ihjel for a mission of utmost importance.Brandd...

Harry Harrison was a famous american science-fiction writer.This collection contains the following short stories and novels :Arm of the LawDeathworldNavy DayPlanet of the DeadSense of obligationThe Ethical EngineerThe K FactorThe Misplaced BattleshipThe RepairmanThe Velvet GlobeToy Shop

From a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee, "intelligent reptiles battle stone age humans for control of an alternate Earth" ( Kirkus Reviews).Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun.But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve intelligent life?In West of Eden, ...

HARRY HARRISONSCI-FI Smash Hits(A Twelve Book Set)By Harry HarrisonDEATHWORLDPLANET OF THE DAMMEDTHE MISPLACED BATTLESHIPTHE REPAIRMANARM OF THE LAWTOY SHOPTHE ETHICAL ENGINEERTHE K-FACTORTHE VELVET GLOVENAVY DAYSENSE OF OBLIGATIONBRIDGE CROSSINGBook SynopsisThis is a twelve book/story set)DEATHWORLD...

Homeworld is heaven on earth.If you don't ask questions.Homeworld is stable at last, hundreds of years after the collapse of the 20th Century economy. For the millions of proles, life is still a grim ordeal, but for the lucky few, like Engineer Jan Kulozik, there is every kind of luxury. Except one. On Homeworld, where everything and everyone is monitored by the faceless power of government, there is no freedom.Jan Kulozik knew nothing of the Resistance; he probably ...

From the author of Make Room! Make Room!: A celebratory collection of fifty science fiction stories for each of his first fifty years as a professional writer.From his first sale in 1950 on, Harry Harrison has been one of the science fiction world's creative dynamos, working in every subgenre of the field, always bursting with provocative ideas. Parodic one moment, serious the next, Harrison has been called by Brian Aldiss "one of the few authors capable of...

This collection comprises of the first six titles in Harry Harrison's brilliantly entertaining Stainless Steel Rat series, containing:A Stainless Steel Rat Is BornThe Stainless Steel Rat gets DraftedThe Stainless Steel Rat Sings the BluesThe Stainess Steel RatThe Stainless Steel Rat's RevengeThe Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World