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Harry Harrison
The stainless steel rat, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
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A classic of dystopian SF–the basis for the movie Soylent Green–returns to print
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The iconic 2000 AD adaptation of Harry Harrison's beloved science fiction classic is now repinted in full colour throughout.
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Jason dinAlt has been kidnaped and is being returned to the planet Cassylia to stand trial for his crimes. But on route the space ship he is on crash lands…
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Deathworld is perhaps Harry Harrison's best known novel and is certainly the book that put him on the map. Jason dinAlt is a daring gambler. He uses his spotty psionic…
They were losing the planet. The first of the frontier worlds wanted its independence. There was a traitor in their midst and it was up to Neel to find him…
It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz better known as the Stainless Steel Rat the fastest talking con-man in…
Brion Brandd was chosen for the mission because he was the very best of the best. It is up to him to avert a nuclear war but even all his…
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"DEATHWORLD," a novel by Harry Harrison, is a thrilling and imaginative foray into the world of Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler with a unique talent for psychokinesis. Published in 1960…
Paul Tomlinson
The definitive Harry Harrison bibliography, with lengthy annotations and a special bonus–the Harrison story written for Harlan Ellison’s unpublished Last Dangerous Visions anthology.
Harry Harrison was recognized as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writer’s of America. He was best known for his Deathworld and Stainless Steel Rat series. He was nominated…
Questions about how to negotiate belief and non-belief in social and public spheres are attracting an increasing amount of attention from academics in a range of disciplines, and from concerned…
Being an interstellar troubleshooter wouldn’t be so bad….if I could shoot the trouble!
The central hero is a gambler who becomes involved with colonists of an extremely hostile planet. Some planet in the galaxy must – by definition – be the toughest, meanest…
Deathworld centers on Jason Dinalt, originally from an agrarian planet Porgorstorsaand, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor.
In these and other comic book stories, Harrison most often worked with Wally Wood. Wood usually inked over Harrison’s layouts and the two freelanced for several publishers and genres, including…
It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship … but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced…
The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man’s mental skin… .
Part of a collection of science fiction stories(War with the Robots), written by Harry Harrison in 1956-1961. The collection is tied together by a central theme of robots being able…
The central hero is a gambler who becomes involved with colonists of an extremely hostile planet. That mores is strictly a matter of local custom cannot be denied. But that…
In this gripping story from science fiction master Harry Harrison, a gigantic battleship has disappeared without a trace.
ASHE: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Set on planet DIS! - a world of death inhabited by crude, barbaric, backward and miserable people, from the author of Lifeboat and Technicolor Time Machine .
Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published…
It’s more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in…
As two planets that share a single star prepare to go to war, Brion tries to avert the destruction of Nyjord by redeeming the hellish Planet of the Damned. By…
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The science fiction books Deathworld, Deathworld 2, and Deathworld 3, as well as the short story "The Mothballed Spaceship," were written by American author Harry Harrison. Deathworld was first published…
Here's the original short story that first introduced us to Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat! diGriz is charming, quick-witted, sophisticated, and a devious criminal mastermind…
Originally published: New York: Bantam Books, 1960.
Planet of the Damned is a 1962 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison. It was serialised in 1961 under the title Sense of Obligation and published under that…
Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 - August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and…
Contents
The Stainless Steel Rat
The Misplaced Battleship
The K-Factor
Arm of the Law
The Repairman
Toy Shop
Navy Day
The Velvet Glove
James Bolivar diGriz, alias "Slippery Jim" and…
Harry Harrison has created a Universe where humans have settled on untold numbers of planets and adapted to the planets rather than the planets being adapted to humans. This makes…
This volume collects three tales by Harry Harrison: Toy Shop, The Repairman, and The K-Factor.
