The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!
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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 by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort when the humans-only galaxy of the League is invaded by all manner of hideous aliens.
The Rat, disguised in the most hideous combination of alien physical features, is sent into the centre of the aliens' stronghold, where he finds himself the object of desire among the aliens. His task is to stop the aliens, who plan to wipe out every human in the universe.
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10 primary books11 released books#7 in Stainless Steel Rat
Stainless Steel Rat is a 11-book series with 11 released primary works first released in 1961 with contributions by Harry Harrison.
Series
10 primary books11 released books#4 in Stainless Steel Rat (Publication Order)
Stainless Steel Rat (Publication Order) is a 11-book series with 11 released primary works first released in 1961 with contributions by Harry Harrison.
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ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.
I???ve been enjoying Harry Harrison???s Stainless Steel Rat series, especially the superb audio versions produced by Brilliance Audio. Slippery Jim DiGriz is a con artist who???s been forced to work undercover for the Special Corps, an intergalactic investigating agency. Each of these short novels starts with him (and now his family, too) hiding out from the Special Corps and living it up on other taxpayers??? money. Each time, the Special Corps traps him and sends him off on a fast-paced, dangerous mission that usually involves saving the galaxy in some way.
This time aliens are invading, so Slippery Jim, with the help of his beautiful and deadly wife and their delinquent teenage twins, infiltrates their lair by disguising himself as an alien who wants to join their army. How could he possibly know that his alien costume is so sexy that he???ll have to fight off male suitors while he???s trying to save the galaxy?
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You is another entertaining offering from Harry Harrison and narrator Phil Gigante. It was fun to see Jim and Angelina???s twins grown up and following the family traditions. Unfortunately, this story relies on some of the same plot elements that we???ve seen before ??? it seems fairly simple to save the world when your enemies are all brainwashed by outdated moral philosophies, you???ve got a time machine on hand, and the laws of physics bend at your will.
Still, if you???re willing to overlook all that, then these stories are definitely entertaining, especially with Phil Gigante reading them.
