| Author/Contributor(s): | Harrison, Harry |
| Publisher: | Tor Books |
| Date: | 05/30/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Long Live the Rat!
"When Kingsley Amis read the first Stainless Steel Rat novel he said, 'Well, Harry, you have written the first picaresque science fiction novel.' I nodded sagaciously-and at the first opportunity rushed to my dictionary.
Picaresque 1. of or relating to a type of fiction in which the hero, a rogue, goes through a series of episodic adventures.
Well, that is a fair enough description. My hero is alone against the universe, with every man's hand-if not every woman's-turned against him. He is without the law, verily a law unto himself, with a strict sense of morality. Aren't the two mutually incompatible? No, as you will soon discover..." -Harry Harrison, from the Introduction
"Cheerfully larcenous and anarchic. Long may the Rat run roughshod over the forces of law, order, and the square world." -The Orlando Sentinel
"Harrison's fictions constitute one of the main monuments in modern SF." -Paul Di Filippo, Scifi.com, on 50 in 50