A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

Name: A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Author: Harry Harrison
ISBN: 9781441881489

Author: Harry Harrison

Series: Stainless Steel Rat Series #6

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/12/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In this prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat, Slippery Jim is a brash 17-year-old who has left his parents' porcuswine farm, planning to embark on a life of crime. The book opens with Jim bungling a bank job so that he can be arrested and sent to prison, where he plans to learn the art of being a master criminal.Deciding that the Bishop should be his mentor, Jim sets about proving himself worthy of the master's attention. He eventually has to flee his home planet of Bit O' Heaven with the Bishop, but Garth, the Captain of the ship who promised them safe passage, sells them into slavery.The latter part of the book details Jim's adventures on the planet Spiovente, a semi-industrial world fighting feudal wars with weapons smuggled in (against League regulations) by Captain Garth.

About Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on March 19, 2021

Since I'm reading these in publication order rather than chronological order, I'm quite aware that this is an origin story for our favorite thieving rat and not one that gets overly outrageous and epic. In that respect, it's fun as hell. Hijinx and heists are fun in any quantity. I really enjoyed his......more

Goodreads review by Lee on November 23, 2013

Simple, easy to read. Nothing outstanding or deep. But if you are looking for a mickey spillane style non-brain burning old scifi, then the Rat series is for you. Very little character development yet and pretty much this book was the same story told three times. Get into trouble, fight a bit, run......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 16, 2017

The story is a bit dated but still a fun read in a "It Takes A Thief" sort of flavor.......more

Goodreads review by Kat on February 15, 2011

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born is a prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat series. Jimmy Bolivar diGriz is a smart and ambitious 17-year-old who feels trapped and inhibited on the backward planet of Bit O' Heaven where his parents are porcuswine farmers. Jim learne......more

Goodreads review by Gav451 on July 21, 2019

So then, the first if one goes by the narrative chronology but. like with Star Wars, in fact the author wrote these prequels after the main event. I like Harry Harrison, he has a decent sense of humour and a punchy direct style that made this fun to read but I did have one or two issues that just to......more