The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

Ah, a little time travel absurdity, a dash of master thievery, and a sprinkling of megalomaniac revenge turn this otherwise light and humorous SF snarkfest into a history-diving train wreck that visits the mid '70s, late Napoleonic, and the twilight years of Earth. It's almost like a Doctor who with......more

This time travel story plays far more loose with the rules - and makes much less sense - than the author's other Technicolor Time Machine. But despite that, it's still good fun.......more

Wild story with well written female lead! 🎉The bar’s pretty low with people like Asimov setting the expectations in sci-fi. 🤦It was a great time, very 70’s. Weighs in on many of the issues of the time like the cold war, quartz crisis, space race, and psychedelics. Definitely redeems the decent-but-l......more

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. Slippery Jim DiGriz is back. Back in time, that is. The evil villain who calls himself “He” has been using time travel to try to rid the world of the Special Corp (including Jim and Angelina) by eliminating them before they were even born. As his world is quic......more

Like 'Revenge' this is a book which starts really strong and hits all the right buttons as to moves to its conclusion. As with my previous review I like the writing style, the brevity, the characters and the pace so why 1 star less? The ending was not the best. It felt like the author got slightly wr......more