Title: Spaceship Medic By: Harry Harrison Pages: 141 Rating: 4 ‘Space emergency! The hull of this ship has been holed. Follw space survival drill.’ ‘We are all dead men,’ says First Engineer Holtz, when the spaceship Johannes Kepler is hit by a meteorite. But Lieutenant Donald Chase, a young doctor on his first flight, refuses …
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The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (Stainless Steel Rat, #7)
Title: The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (Stainless Steel Rat, #7) By: Harry Harrison Pages: 160 Rating: 4 After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin’ sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested …
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The Stainless Steel Rat 01-06: The Gateway Collection
Title: The Stainless Steel Rat 01-06: The Gateway Collection By: Harry Harrison Pages: 1113 Rating: 4 This collection comprises of the first six titles in Harry Harrison’s brilliantly entertaining Stainless Steel Rat series, containing: n n A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born n n The Stainless Steel Rat gets Drafted n n The Stainless Steel …
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The Daleth Effect
Title: The Daleth Effect By: Harry Harrison Pages: 217 Rating: 3 A top Israeli scientist discovers something that will revolutionize travel both here and in space, and returns to his native Denmark for reasons revealed later in the book. Other nations (primarily cold war America and Soviet Union) try to acquire this technology, providing much …
Seven Short Science Fiction Stories
Title: Seven Short Science Fiction Stories By: Harry Harrison Pages: 137 Rating: 5 This is a collection of seven fantastic and short science fiction stories by Harry Harrison. The stories include: 1) The Misplaced Battleship 2) Arm of the Law3) Toy Shop 4) The Repairman5) The K-Factor6) Navy Day 7) The Velvet Glove stories 2, …
The Harry Harrison Megapack: 12 Classics of Science Fiction, including ROBOT JUSTICE, DEATHWORLD, and DEATHWORLD II
Title: The Harry Harrison Megapack: 12 Classics of Science Fiction, including ROBOT JUSTICE, DEATHWORLD, and DEATHWORLD II By: Harry Harrison Pages: 610 Rating: 4 The Harry Harrison Megapack collects 12 novels and stories by the author of the Stainless Steel Rat series, including the classics science fiction novels DEATHWORLD and PLANET OF THE DAMNED — …
Plague from Space
Title: Plague from Space By: Harry Harrison Pages: 154 Rating: 3 Spacecraft: PericlesType: Manned explorationDestination: JupiterCargo: ExtinctionBertolli was there when the Pericles returned to Earth. He was the first to reach Commander Rand as he staggered, hideously disfigured & close to death, from the crew’s cabin. From that moment, Dr. Bertolli became the front line …
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (Stainless Steel Rat, #11)
Title: The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (Stainless Steel Rat, #11) By: Harry Harrison Pages: 304 Rating: 2 After a ten-year absence, the return of one of the most enduring series characters in modern SF. James Bolivar “Slippery Jim” DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on …
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Galactic Dreams
Title: Galactic Dreams By: Harry Harrison Pages: 222 Rating: 3 Collected here are twelve of Harrison’s best, including “Space Rats of the CCC,” probably the greatest space opera ever written, slightly tongue-in-cheek; “At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein,” in which our favorite monster gets new life – but whose life is it?; “Bill, The …
A Rebel in Time
Title: A Rebel in Time By: Harry Harrison Pages: 315 Rating: 2 Can history be changed? Can the South still win the War Between the States? Colonel McCulloch thinks so, even though the war ended more than a hundred years ago. With gold, an automatic weapon, and some very special blueprints, he plans to go …