![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 195 of my science fiction & fantasy reading project.Ī Stainless Steel Rat is Born is a prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat series. Harrison must have blasted these books out quickly and for fun, between other projects (or whenever he needed to top up the bank account).īook no. The writing is serviceable, but kindly don’t expect anything of Raymond Chandler quality. Very entertaining and great for a couple of evenings of reading. ![]() ![]() We watch as Jim meets his mentor, develops his “code,” and adopts the SSR persona. After escaping, he must hatch a plan to lure in the smartest criminal of all time, The Bishop. Instead, he finds that the wise guys aren’t in the joint, they are free and doing what they do best. Fresh off the porcuswine farm, he is determined to get sent to jail, where he anticipates meeting some impressive criminals who can provide a master-class in crime. Going back to Jim’s genesis was an inspired idea. How times have changed-now we have all kinds of numbering orders and it feels quite normal. Prequels must have been a fairly new phenomenon in the mid-1980s, as the author feels the need to explain them in a foreword. Harrison breathes some new life into the Stainless Steel Rat series by going back to Slippery Jim’s beginnings. ![]()
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