The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You

Name: The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Harry Harrison
ISBN: 9781441881304

Author: Harry Harrison

Series: Stainless Steel Rat Series #4

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 12/12/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on March 16, 2021

On my furious re-read of the Stainless Steel Rat, this particular entry happens to be my personal favorite -- so far. Alien invasion! It works much better when you're working with a master thief in a rubber suit. Believe me. And then there are the Morality people. And J. Hova. :) I'm totally rolling my......more

Goodreads review by Juho on June 01, 2020

This series was never the epitome of sanity and serious literature, but even then this one's several magnitudes more insane than those so far. Jim's kids are now grown-up - and Jim himself has a nice 'stache, according to the cover - and they all go out together to fight first taxmen and then aliens......more

Goodreads review by Little on February 01, 2019

Another in the stainless steel rat books. They are all quick reads with alot of humor in them. The stories remain fresh and new. Very recommended, especially to teen readers or someone new to SiFi......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on January 19, 2023

After ‘Slippery’ Jim diGriz’s beautiful and dangerous wife Angelina is kidnapped by the Interstellar Revenue people (the taxmen), he is forced to seek aid from Inskipp, head of Special Corps. Once there Jim finds that the Universe has bigger problems than unpaid taxes, as a shipload of admirals has......more