Stainless/Rat/Born

by Harry Harrison

Book Overview

First American hardcover publication. Written in 1985, it is the first story in the "Stainless Steel Rat" universe timeline. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553247085
• ISBN13: 9780553247084
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fun and more fun! Anti-hero from tomorrow for today!

What an amusing and entertaining read! If you've read the Stainless Steel novels, you allready now of Sleepery Jeem and his inter-galactic adventures.. But this insight into his character and background is a triumph to the sci-fi serial heros. Harrison is one of the funniest sci-fi authors of the past 30 years, probably best known for his novel, "Make Room! Make Room!" for which the movie Soylent Green was based upon. Harrison writes like a mutated Arthur Douglas/Larry Niven/Rex Stout mixture, and the reader will double over at the funny circumstances, the hilarious dialogues, and the quick but dry-witted narration of Slippery Jim DeGriz. The Stainless Steel hero is the future day Anti-hero, the hero who is actually the smartest crook to ever live! Read this book and then read the other Stainless Steel novels. You will have a new favorite sci-fi character!!!!

"A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born" is a thought provoking book

This book is one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read. As soon as I started reading it, the character of Jim Di Griz sprang to life in my mind. As the book progressed, I began to realize that Jim Di Griz is really the part of us all that likes to defy authority, break rules on purpose, and create anarchy. The book made me reconsider my views on the authority and law breakers. Which is the greater evil? I couldn't put the book down until I had finshed it and started to read again.

Very good and throught-provoking

This book is one you won't be able to put down. If you know Jimmy diGriz, you won't be disappointed. Rising from the crowd to stand out, with the help of a very good criminal, the Bishop, he is the same Slippery Jim as in all other books. From the junk food shop, where he was in hiding, to Spiovente, where he had to fight for his life and the life of his tutor, you won't forget him. The situations he's in will make you smile, but at the same time will make you reconsider all your attitudes. If you're looking for a good book, this is it

If you need to relax and have a few laughs, look no further!

This is the first book in Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series, although it was one of the last to be written. Being a great humorist, Harry Harrison bring a small philosophy of his own in a funny and convinient format everyone would enjoy. The main hero, Jim DiGriz is a kid from the futuristic world who is a lot diffirent from others. Being rased on a boring, in his opinion, and unexciting world he seeks risk and adventure, and finds it in crime. This book is more than just easy reading, it will make you look around in a way you never had before, see it with the eyes of a smart 16-year old living in a country of dumb adults. Definitely the thing to read - and laugh on for hours.

This book is awsome

This book takes place in the futuristic point of view of the author, Harry Harrison. Young Jimmy DiGritz is a very intelligent boy who feels the only way to survive is to turn to a life of crime. The book shows how he learns all of his tricks of the trade