He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hank Dempsey, Felix Boyd, Wade Kaempfert, Cameron Hall, Philip St. Harry Harrisons bestselling Stainless Steel Rat series has earned rave reviews and a legion of fans, and has catapulted the Rat himself, an antisocial rule. His novel Make Room! Make Room! Was the inspiration for the movie Soylent Green. He also wrote the Stainless Steel Rat series and the Bill, the Galactic Hero series. Compra The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues. He wrote short science fiction stories and novels including Deathworld, Captive Universe, Montezuma's Revenge, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, Stonehenge, West of Eden, Stars and Stripes Forever. First there was the robbery of the Mint on Paskönjak that went terribly wrong, and then that little matter of a death penalty, and an extremely unpleasant execution after that. As the market for comics began to shrink, he started writing for science-fiction magazines. Things arent going well for Slippery Jim diGriz. He then moved on to editing some of the magazines.

By the end of the 1940s, he was running a small studio that specialized in selling illustrations to comics and science-fiction magazines. After being discharged, he graduated from Hunter College with a degree in art. Air Corps in 1943 and became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, a gunnery instructor, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-guided bomb-sights and gun turrets. But as time passes - and Jim's life expectancy is reduced - the mission becomes less about recovering the artefact, and more about liberating the planet.Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey on Main Stamford, Connecticut.

Liokuke is a colony where misfits and maniacs are sent, so to ensure a warm welcome and safe passage around the planet, Jim arrives with three League agents, disguised as a rock band sent to entertain the inhabitants. To ensure that Jim doesn't try to escape, he is given a slow-acting poison - he's got 30 days to return with the artefact, and receive the antidote, or he'll die.

The League want Jim to go to the planet Liokukae and bring back a missing artefact - the only known evidence of an alien life-form ever found. He is presented with a simple choice: a horrible death, or a job for the Galactic League. Slippery Jim is caught red-handed when he tries to rob the mint in Paskönjak. The eighth Rat book, and the third in the 'prequel' sequence, following A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born and The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted.

The stainless steel rat sings the blues