Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972, Putnam)
191 pages
English language
Published Jan. 29, 1972 by Putnam.
5 stars
Time travel used to be quite a trope in sci-fi back then and this one is masterfully executed.
If I could go back in time and re-read it for the first time, I would!
Time travel used to be quite a trope in sci-fi back then and this one is masterfully executed.
If I could go back in time and re-read it for the first time, I would!
And so ends yet another adventure for slippery Jim. This time, he goes back to old earth and generally trots around in time, rather than space. all quite paradoxical and ludicrous, but quite unsurprising. We don't know much about Jim's early life yet, so his blase assurances that this is the first time he's felt the true hand of fear and so forth may be a wee bit hollow. Still, with the kids added into the mix the adventures are surely to increase in sarcastic banter, if nothing else.
