Books by Harry Harrison and Complete Book Reviews
Harry Harrison, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-40937-9
The third and final book in Nebula Award–winner Harrison's entertaining alternate history of the American Civil War (Stars & Stripes Forever; Stars & Stripes in Peril), in which the two sides reunite against a common enemy after...
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Harry Harrison, Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2441-2
Harrison returns to his long-running interstellar adventure series for the first time since 1999's The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus. Slippery Jim DiGriz, a thief and con artist, is enjoying a comfortable 35th-century life when his hick...
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Harry Harrison, Author Spectra Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09612-5
Even after four previous capers on the various planets of Harrison's high-tech (but recognizably hip) 25th century, the freshness of the author's language overcomes a somewhat predictable plot structure to make this outing by his favorite future...
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86063-9
In a distant future, with human civilization spread across the stars, Slippery Jim DiGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, has flourished, first as a classically noble outlaw, then on the side of the law as a member of the elite Special Corps. When his...
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Harry Harrison, Author Spectra Books $18.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-553-05163-6
The Tanu are savage hunters, the Yilane are reptile people whose scientific side is usually tilted toward evil, and this second book in the West of Eden trilogy opens with Kerrick, the Tanu leader, brooding over the corpses of Yilane killed in the...
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $18.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-312-85245-0
Harrison's short stories are what pulp science fiction should have been, but almost never was. These 12 tales, drawn from his 40-year career, have all the fast-moving plots, outrageous alien characters and general fun of the genre without the purple
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $23.95 (415p) ISBN 978-0-312-85439-3
In this rich and exciting alternate history, Harrison ( Stainless Steel Visions ) evokes the spirit and atmosphere of the so-called Dark Ages with wit, sensitivity and impeccable research. England in the ninth century suffers from frequent Viking...
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $19.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-312-85246-7
Few commercial writers are more deserving of their popularity than Harrison ( The Hammer and the Cross ), a fine writer who occasionally reaches brilliant heights. His latest collection boasts moments that rank high, but the overall level is...
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Harry Harrison, Author Del Rey Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-40933-1
Admirers of Harrison's West of Eden trilogy or his magisterial Dark Ages collaboration with John Holm won't be pleased by this disappointing novel of an alternate Civil War. Neither will buffs of that conflict or military historians accustomed to...
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $23.95 (399p) ISBN 978-0-312-85691-5
Cleverly combining mystical visions of Norse and Christian mythologies with an alternative history of the ninth century, Harrison's (The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues) latest is an entertaining follow-up to The Hammer and the Cross. Though...
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85692-2
From a veteran like Harrison, readers expect a well-researched historical fantasy full of challenging speculations about the growth and nature of technology. And that's just what they get in this final volume of the trilogy that also includes Hammer
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-86934-2
Life is always full of adventure for Jim DiGriz, the master criminal known as The Stainless Steel Rat, but this time he may be in over his head. After taking a job infiltrating a suspicious circus on a four million credit a day retainer, DiGriz...
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Harry Harrison, Author Tor Books $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0277-9
Exit Strategy, the much-hyped open source novel by columnist and commentator Douglas Rushkoff (Coercion, ecstasy Club), is both a moral allegory and a ""hypertext labyrinth of references and cross-references"" creating a ""community riff on our...
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Harry Harrison. Tor, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4299-6728-0
The late Harry Harrison (The Stainless Steel Rat), a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee, blends his personal adventures with literary history in this entertaining, posthumously published memoir. Harrison gives readers an inside look at the...
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Harry Harrison, Author, Marvin L. Minsky, Author Warner Books $21.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-446-51565-8
Minsky ( The Society of the Mind ), one of the foremost authorities on artificial intelligence research, has many interesting ideas about the potential and pitfalls of the quest for a truly free-thinking machine, and some of them come through in...
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