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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You (edizione 1981)di Harry Harrison
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. In the very far future, where Earth is forgotten and planets are now tamed with bureaucracy, it takes a thief (and his family), to save the human worlds from ooze filled monsters. Of course, the plot is silly - the monsters speak Esperanto because they learnt it from transmissions and found it to be superior language. Of course, there is an evil human empire in the mix that is actually behind the attacks. And Mr. Jim deGriz manages to solve all the problems, with a bit of luck. Unfortunately, the book is of its time. We have an attempt at gender equality but it misses the point entirely. Woman are not part of the military in this world, unless she's smoking hot with talents. The monsters are a stand in for all the things America hates - and on top of it all, easily deceived by a costume that Jim wears to get into the ranks. Now, I thought the culture of the Gray Men to be the best part of the book - I'd like to see it expanded into a larger story that is more serious. ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. I’ve been enjoying Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series, especially the superb audio versions produced by Brilliance Audio. Slippery Jim DiGriz is a con artist who’s been forced to work undercover for the Special Corps, an intergalactic investigating agency. Each of these short novels starts with him (and now his family, too) hiding out from the Special Corps and living it up on other taxpayers’ money. Each time, the Special Corps traps him and sends him off on a fast-paced, dangerous mission that usually involves saving the galaxy in some way. This time aliens are invading, so Slippery Jim, with the help of his beautiful and deadly wife and their delinquent teenage twins, infiltrates their lair by disguising himself as an alien who wants to join their army. How could he possibly know that his alien costume is so sexy that he’ll have to fight off male suitors while he’s trying to save the galaxy? The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You is another entertaining offering from Harry Harrison and narrator Phil Gigante. It was fun to see Jim and Angelina’s twins grown up and following the family traditions. Unfortunately, this story relies on some of the same plot elements that we’ve seen before — it seems fairly simple to save the world when your enemies are all brainwashed by outdated moral philosophies, you’ve got a time machine on hand, and the laws of physics bend at your will. Still, if you’re willing to overlook all that, then these stories are definitely entertaining, especially with Phil Gigante reading them. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieAppartiene alle Collane EditorialiHeyne Science Fiction & Fantasy (06/4492) Science Fiction Book Club (2123) È contenuto inStainless Steel Rat Series: 4 Hardcovers - The Stainless Steel Rat is Born - The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted - The Stainless Steel Rat for President - The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You di Harry Harrison Der Stahlratte Zyklus um James Bolivar diGriz (Die Geburt einer Stahlratte - Stahlratte wird Rekrut - Stahlratte zeigt die Zähne - Stahlratte schlägt zurück - Stahlratte rettet die Welt - Stahlratte will dich - Macht Stahlratte zum Präsidenten - Die Stahlratte singt den Blues - Visionen einer Stahlratte - Die Stahlratte fährt zur Hölle) di Harry Harrison
After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin' sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort, when the humans-only galaxy of the League is invaded by all manner of hideous aliens. The Rat, disguised in the most hideous combination of alien physical features, is sent into the centre of the aliens' stronghold, where he finds himself the object of desire among the aliens. His task is to stop the aliens, who plan to wipe out every human in the universe. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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For centuries man has thought he was alone in the universe. Until today, when aliens found us. Not just one species but like 100s, and they all look really gross, testicles and squishy and stuff. And because they think WE look gross, with our crunchy self, rhey ave declared war on the entire human race and they must be eliminated.
Slippery Jim of course saves the day, this time he dresses like an ugly dinosaur that the aliens think is a super hot female alien. ( )